Jazz Jennings Quotes

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

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

I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.

My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

I grew up having to do manual labor because people always told me that I was an ugly girl. I've never had the permission to be myself except for when I'm doing manual labor. Because in manual labor, it's about, 'Can you pick this up, can you move this here,' and I could.

I was raised by a woman who was her true and authentic self. So I feel like it's very important to put on for people who aren't that confident or people who don't realize the value in self-love.

I just encourage young girls to be true to themselves.

Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people.

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

If people can find something that they love about themselves after going to one of my shows, then I am so addicted to that feeling. It's the most gratifying thing on earth.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the 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.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

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.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

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

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.