Dawnn Lewis Quotes

I embrace who I am. I just want my child to do the same thing.

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.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

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.

There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

I love who I am.

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

I'm just more comfortable in my own skin now.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

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.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

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

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of knowledge around beauty, is totally okay. And not just okay, but actually really valuable.

I believe people, especially women, have become more accepting of who they are.

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.

Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.

I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can't be anything for anyone else if I'm not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.

I've grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more open about self-love. I'm still learning how to take up space and speak out when needed, but that's a new thing for me and I'm loving it.

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.