I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that one can embrace femininity while also being intelligent and successful.
Portia De Rossi's quote encourages young people, especially women, to recognize that femininity and success are not mutually exclusive. It underscores the importance of breaking stereotypes and inspires individuals to embrace their unique identities while pursuing their goals in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech to high school students about career choices.
If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.
When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I donβt have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colors and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, a nose which smells the beauty of fragrance, and two ears to hear the words of love.
And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.
The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.
Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world.
Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear.
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