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reality thinking getting-older
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
acceptance helping-others people
I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.
inspirational success used
True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
doors people holding-on
When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.
real love-yourself order
Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.
sex sides scene
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
want restriction yearning
Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
gay facts actresses
I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
self-esteem use fad-diets
The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
lonely felt
And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.
self-esteem insecure avid
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.
meaningful average language
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
fear thinking growth
Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.
thinking world way
Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.