“If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know y...” — Iyanla Vanzant Quote

“If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.”

“In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.”

“I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.”

“When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'”

“If you are making a film for the first time, you have all the problems and fears. Yet, you have the freedom that you will never get in life.”

“All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.”