Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white. . . I would always get such hate about it.
I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.
My father raised us like … we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, ‘Oh that fat person, or this person,’ he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren’t allowed to look at people like that.
It just sucks when you’ve given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.
I just find it crazy what people will critique you on, and you have to take it with a grain of salt. I could be curing cancer, and I would be shunned for it. I mean, that's just the truth. People are crazy, but I like to say for every hater I have 100 people that love me and they think it's motivational, so I try to focus on that. But it's sometimes hard, you know?
Move with the movers.
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.