When girls are given the right tools to succeed, they can create incredible futures, not only for themselves but also for those around them.
– Meghan Markle
It’s not enough to just survive something, right? That’s not the point of life. You’ve got to thrive, you’ve got to feel happy.
– Meghan Markle
Make a choice: Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it.
– Meghan Markle
You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are. . . . You create the identity you want for yourself.
– Meghan Markle
I’m still the same person that I am, and I’ve never defined myself by my relationship.
– Meghan Markle
Women make up more than half of the world’s population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making. The way that we change that, in my opinion, is to mobilize girls and women to see their value as leaders, and to support them in these efforts.
– Meghan Markle
If there was a wrong, if there is a lack of justice, and there is an inequality, then someone needs to say something. And why not me?
– Meghan Markle
I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn’t become the end-all be-all.
– Meghan Markle
With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility-to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings. And, if I’m lucky enough, to inspire.
– Meghan Markle
Women who have understood fashion and style for so long have always known it’s not about having more pieces. It’s about having the right pieces and having the pieces that are of a great quality and look like you know what you’re doing. You don’t have to have a million things on.
– Meghan Markle
Building a strong team around you and being able to really communicate well with them is part of what’s going to bring you a higher level of success.
– Meghan Markle
You can be a woman who wants to look good and still stand up for the equality of women. There’s no uniform for feminism; you are a feminist exactly the way you are.
– Meghan Markle
Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years.
– Meghan Markle
As I’m getting older, my approach to aging is quite different. I make sure that I take care of my skin and body, especially with the work hours I have. And I don’t just take care of myself for aesthetic reasons but because how I feel is dictated by what I’m eating, how much rest I’m getting and how much water I’m drinking.
– Meghan Markle
Be kind to yourself.
– Meghan Markle
We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?
– Meghan Markle
I dream pretty big, but truly had no idea my life could be this awesome. I am the luckiest girl in the world, without question!
– Meghan Markle
Do the things you enjoy within reason. Know your body and what works for you and you’ll be fine.
– Meghan Markle
To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.
– Meghan Markle
Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like.
– Meghan Markle
You have to take care of yourself so you can manage the workload of a very, very full plate.
– Meghan Markle
I think the biggest part of being a girl boss in the office, at home or anywhere you go is just knowing your value.
– Meghan Markle
I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches; I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.
– Meghan Markle
Take things with a grain of salt, and find balance within your life. On your lunch break, leave to go and get some fresh air. You don’t need to make your life your job. I have to find that balance for myself, as well…I think you have to make time for yourself so that work doesn’t become the end-all be-all.
– Meghan Markle
Everyone should be afforded the opportunity to receive the education they want, but more importantly, the education they have the right to receive. And for women and girls in developing countries, this is vital.
– Meghan Markle
Every girl has potential. She has promise. She has the right to learn, the right to be heard, the right to play, and to discover. The right to be exactly who she is.
– Meghan Markle
Women who had the strength to really stand up for something that they knew needed to be done is the best example of no matter how small you might feel, how low you may feel on the ladder or the totem pole, no matter what color you are, no matter what gender you are, you have a voice and you certainly have the right to speak up for what is right.
– Meghan Markle
It’s all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things – it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that.
– Meghan Markle
Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now. I was born and raised in Los Angeles. My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hardworking father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
– Meghan Markle
In a world that can seem so aggressive, confrontational, and dangerous, you should know that you have the power to change it.
– Meghan Markle
For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
– Meghan Markle
People don’t need to feel scared.
– Meghan Markle
Women’s suffrage is about feminism, but feminism is about fairness.
– Meghan Markle
Have a power piece in your wardrobe. If it’s the one dress that makes you feel so badass, or the one crisp button-down – whatever it is so that when you wake up on those days where you’re not really feeling going into work, you put that piece on and it’s almost like your own anthem. It can really shift the energy of your whole day.
– Meghan Markle
I’m consistently asked how I keep a foot in two contrasting worlds – one in the entertainment industry, predicated on wealth and indulgence, and the other in humanitarian work. To me, it’s less of a question of how can you do this, and more a question of how can you not?
– Meghan Markle
You need to know that you’re enough-a mantra that has now ingrained itself so deeply within me that not a day goes by without hearing it chime in my head. That five pounds lost won’t make you happier, that more makeup won’t make you prettier, that the now iconic saying from Jerry Maguire, ‘You complete me,’ frankly, isn’t true. You are complete with or without a partner. You are enough just as you are.
– Meghan Markle
I encourage and empower each of you to really stand in your truth, to stand for what is right – to continue to respect each other.
– Meghan Markle
Make sure you are safe, and never ever put yourself in a compromising situation, but once that is checked off the list, I think it’s really important for us to remember that someone needs us, and that your act of giving/helping/doing can truly become an act of grace once you get out of your head.
– Meghan Markle
I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
– Meghan Markle
As you get older, you become more comfortable in your skin and comfortable in saying no to things…I’ve also learned that saying no is just as valuable as saying yes. It’s something that, I think, comes with age and really having a sense of your self-worth. And then you make choices based on that.
– Meghan Markle