It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
Interpretation
Women should embrace their beauty and worth without conforming to external standards.
In this quote, Elle Macpherson emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and the pursuit of inner beauty over societal expectations. She points out that women are often conditioned to feel inadequate and pressured to meet unrealistic standards, but she advocates for recognizing and cherishing one's own unique beauty and worth as they are.
In practice
In a speech about body positivity, someone might say, 'As Elle Macpherson wisely stated, it's not vanity to feel beautiful.'
Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me_x000D_ Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be_x000D_ And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me_x000D_ My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.
A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
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