I'm sure I would still have anxiety even if I got a bunch of surgery, and was the most conventionally attractive, cis-passing woman in the world; I think those are traumas that never go away.
Interpretation
True beauty and self-acceptance come from within, not from external appearances.
This quote reflects on the idea that external changes, such as surgery, cannot fully resolve internal anxieties and traumas. It emphasizes that self-acceptance and healing from personal struggles are necessary regardless of physical appearance or societal standards of beauty.
In practice
During a mental health awareness event, this quote can highlight the importance of addressing internal struggles rather than focusing solely on external appearances.
It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
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