When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the impact of external perceptions and the search for self-identity beyond appearances.
Grace Jones expresses how her experience as a model, surrounded by flawless images of beauty, distorted her perception of reality. She emphasizes the importance of disconnecting from superficial reflections to reclaim a sense of true identity and reality, suggesting that constant exposure to idealized appearances can lead to a loss of self and authenticity.
In practice
In a speech about self-acceptance, one might reference this quote to illustrate the dangers of comparison to unrealistic beauty standards.
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.
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