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But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.
I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"
Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.