I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

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Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself.

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Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

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They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

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Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.

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I do not accept any less than someone just as real, as fabulous!

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Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way.

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You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

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For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

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