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.
God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,_x000D_ _x000D_ Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed_x000D_ _x000D_ Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.
I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.
I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.
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