Always Quote by Myha'la

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly…

— Rainbow Rowell

Being from the Middle East paired with my upbringing in the United States had pretty polarising effects on the way I perceive beauty.

— Huda Kattan

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and…

— Marion Cotillard

Beauty was so heavily important in my family, something I had to contend with. All those experiences allow me to make what I'm making…

— Mickalene Thomas

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me…

— Anonymous

“Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences.”

— Bryant McGill

As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family…

— Jenny Zhang

“If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.”

— Matt Haig

Growing up, I was always obsessed with all of the beauty things.

— Chloe Fineman

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic…

— Charlotte Ronson

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

— Barbie Ferreira