Emily Weiss Quotes

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

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.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

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've said it before, but I'll say it again because you can't say it enough: Your skin is beautiful - dark, light, in the middle, whatever. Brown is beautiful. Your hair is beautiful. If you wear a weave, it's beautiful. If you choose to be natural, that's beautiful. Also, you are enough.

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.

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

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

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

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

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.

A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.

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

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

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 have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

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 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.

Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

There's something beautiful in being who you are and being comfortable with whatever your voice is.

My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.