Цитаты из книг — Бритни Спирс

When you're successful at something, there's lot of pressure to keep right on doing it, even if you're not enjoying it anymore. And, as I would quickly find out, you really can't go home again.

The saddest part to me was that what I always wanted was a dad who would love me as I was — somebody who would say, "I just love you. You could do anything right now. I'd still love you with unconditional love."

There were so many different ways to be a woman in the industry: you could get a reputation for being a diva, you could be professional, or you could be "nice." I had always tried so hard to please — to please my parents, to please audiences, to please everyone.

What no one in the media seemed to realize was that I was hard on myself as it was. I could be wild, but at heart, I was always a people-pleaser. Even at my lowest, I cared what people thought.

Every young person knows what it feels like to want to rebel against your family, especially if they're controlling.

You have to speak the thing that you're feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.

I feel like a lot of women —and this is definitely true of me —can be as strong as they want to be, can play this powerful role, but at the end of the day, after we've done our work and made our money and taken care of everyone else, we want someone to hold us tight and tell us everything's going to be okay

That's how we all were with Jamie Lynn: You see it, you like it, you want it, you got it. As far as I could tell, her world was the Ariana Grande song "7 Rings" come to life.

At one awards show, I knocked on Mariah Carey 's dressing room door. She opened it and out poured the most beautiful, otherworldly light. You know how we all have ring lights now? Well, more than twenty years ago, only Mariah Carey knew about ring lights. And no, I can't say just her first name. To me she is always going…

If no one is used to you being assertive, they get very freaked out when you start speaking your mind. I felt myself turning into their worst fear.

Bur fame? That world isn't real, my friends. It's. Not. Real. You go along with it because of course it's going to pay the bills and everything. But for me, there was an essence of real life missing from it.

Artists make things and play characters because they want an escape into faraway worlds, and escape was exactly what I needed.

Seeing them marching in the streets, chanting “Free Britney!”—that was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen in my life. I know some people laughed at it. They saw the pink T-shirts with my name on them and said, “What kind of cause is this?”. But if they really knew what I was going through and understood the connection I…

For so long, my parents had convinced me that I was the bad one, the crazy one, and it worked completely in their favor.

Once you start to see yourself that way—as not just someone who exists to make everyone else happy but someone who deserves to make their wishes known—that changes everything.

Feeling like you’re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. He’d drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I’d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.

Raising kids in the South used to be more about respecting your parents and keeping your mouth shut. (Today, the rules have reversed—it’s more about respecting the kids.)

When I was growing up, my mother and father fought constantly. He was an alcoholic. I was usually scared in my home. Outside wasn’t necessarily heaven, either, but it was my world. Call it heaven or hell, it was mine.

Так часто я боялась говорить, боялась, что меня примут за сумасшедшую. Но теперь я выучила урок, дорогой ценой. Вы должны говорить, даже если боитесь. Должны рассказать свою историю. Должны возвысить голос. Мне еще многое предстояло открыть той ночью, когда я потерялась и почувствовала в пустыне присутствие Бога. Но я…

В Голливуде у мужчин всегда было больше свободы действий, чем у женщин. И я вижу, как мужчин поощряют говорить гадости о женщинах, чтобы стать знаменитыми и влиятельными.