We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

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Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.

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There's a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you're doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It's nice to know that things don't ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know.

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Girls should never be afraid to be smart

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People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

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I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

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The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things

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I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

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The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

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I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

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