Danielle Brooks Quotes

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.

It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.

I just want everyone to know you are beautiful in your own skin.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

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

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.

I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.

No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel like a beautiful woman, no matter what!

I hope to inspire others to be confident in their own skin and to love themselves with makeup or without.

I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

Honestly, at the end of the day, what I want women to know is that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. And that it should not define who you are.

I love 'HUMBLE' because he spoke on women with stretch marks and that's what I live and stand for is body positivity.