Emily V. Gordon Quotes

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.

I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

I love myself.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.