All Quotes

"I feel like there’s no game. I don’t dress for any reason at all other than because I truly love it for myself and how it makes me feel. I feel like I can express myself and be myself."

"Perfection is not of this world.' So try not to give into the demands of this world on how a woman should be"

"Don't 'fake it till you make it.' That's garbage advice. Face it till you make it. Get up. Work hard. Fail. Stand back up. Face it again. Do a little better. Fail again. Get back up."

"The real beauty is just being yourself—the good and the bad."

"Happy Skin is all about natural beauty."

"You can't have a perfect life. And nobody's perfect. So everything's made for a reason to make us better people and stronger."

"There's nothing more sexier than seeing a woman full of wisdom, not too sweet, not too strong, but just the right amount of spice."

"If you feel like you should promote adoption, adopt yourself. (And) if you feel like no one's listening, it doesn't matter as long as you're living in it and eventually they will come. They will see and they will listen."

"Not everything in life is dandy and beautiful."

"It's about the simplest things in life that's very important and really makes a person happy."

"It’s so important to always be authentic and really stay true to yourself whether people agree with you or not."

"Authenticity can be your soft power."

"I can’t keep pleasing you, I can’t keep making everyone happy. I can’t keep buying everybody something just to keep a friendship."

"I have to love myself first in order for me to give more love to others."

"Be grateful, never forget your family no matter where life takes you."

"What's important to me right now is my life and how I live it. My freedom, my choices."

"I kinda really enjoy playing myself now, with all the flaws, with all my insecurities, with all my fears, because I feel like this is liberation for me."

"Paris is special and there’s the saying, ‘They feel like all lost artists find their way to Paris,’ and I found my way to Paris and I love Paris."

"You can have all the richness in the world, but if you have no love in your life, it's not a life worth living.""

"Minsan (Sometimes), masakit (tt hurts) to do the right thing, but at the end, God will reward you."

"Sometimes with the others, I really have to argue my way to get things."

"Even if you are married or even if you’re committed to someone or a friend or whatever, you really have to go through certain things and deal with them alone and really ponder about what you want in life."

"The nice thing about being in a marriage with Chiz is that he has always respected the many seasons of my life that I'm going through."

"My life and how I live it. My freedom, my choices. I don’t wanna live in a box."

"The television industry used to be the gatekeepers of information. Not anymore."

"As journalists, we are called to be truthful, balanced, and fair, not oblivious or heartless. In the heart of every journalist lies an advocate within. One cannot be a journalist without advocating for something – we advocate for human rights, the right to free speech, the right for freedom and our civil liberties. It is no different than advocating for gender equality or let’s say, narrowing the pay gap between men and women."

"For this birthday, I didn’t want it to be about me and Lyca. But we wanted it to be about other people."

"I always say the best investment one can make to lift a family out of poverty is educating a girl and empowering a mother"

"Exposure and experience are great teachers."

"Let us be slow in casting judgment over a person’s decision to leave."

"Once integrity is surrendered, trust in journalism collapses."

"The debate now in my industry has transcended beyond gender. Women before us have paved the way, especially for evening newscasts. We are paid equally, and we are seen as [equally] valuable as male anchors."

"Get the facts right."

"The first step in crisis reporting is to report on what is happening on-ground. You need to give context to what is happening without any analysis or judgment because the analysis comes in later. When you already have enough evidence, that’s when you can report with a particular point of view."

"With Covid as a health emergency, the same thing applies. There's a lot of information coming out. The reporting must be scientific, clinical, and factual. After that, you move on to possible causes and how you can prevent its spread or infection. During this pandemic, I feel that this has been widely practiced in global reportage."

"It's about the way we actually look at women. We don't look at women in admiration first. We always look at women to blame. It goes with everything."

"What I feel though, is that some people come into the industry bearing just beauty, and I resent that. News anchors must have major news track records."

"Women always wear different hats."

"As a journalist in Headstart, I follow essentially the elements of news and interviews. I get the information, challenge the interviewee, call power into account, call policymakers into account, ask them to explain. You make sure that they’re answerable for what they’ve done. You ask them what they’re about to do because they are answerable to a bigger constituency."

"I refuse to be typecasted into just one kind of woman."

"I think it’s universal that women leaders have handled Covid better because women are more organized, more decisive. Women don’t just talk. Women have clearer plans."

"I want to see women in power because they can contribute so much that men cannot. [I want] progressive women who are open, don't just relish the fact that they are women but already have progressive points of view."

"Progressive, out-of-the-box, revolutionary thinkers. Women who are bold and courageous. Those are the kind of women we would want."

"No shortcuts. Do the hard and dirty work. Learn the ropes and be 200 per cent in because that’s when it makes a difference."

"I don’t want to taint my profession."

"No to SEXUAL HARASSMENT. NO to any form of VICTIM SHAMING. Without prejudice to any of my colleagues, these values are eternal to my person."

"Our Nanay Fe left us tonight. She joins my Mom and Dad and my brother for a reunion she told us she was ready for. True mothers need not be blood."

"Matagal na akong binabatikos. Bring it on! Handang handa na rin ako. Alam mo ang turo sa akin ni Mar kung hindi totoo, hindi didikit ‘yan ang tawag d’on Teflon effect. Lahat ng opinyon welcome kung makakabuti para sayo bakit hindi. Kung talagang papansinin mo lahat ‘yan hindi ka makakilos. (I have long been criticized. Bring it on! I am ready. Mar has taught me that if it is not true, it should not stick; it’s called Teflon effect. All opinions are welcome, much more those which will make you better. But if you mind all of them, you will not be able to function.)"

"Journalism before doesn't mean there's no good in it. You must continue to strive to be factual. Facts are facts. You cannot change them. You can interpret them or angle them, but facts are facts. So be factual. Get all the facts straight from as many sides as you can."

"Journalism now is very fluid. The kind of journalism that I knew then is dead for me."