"I do sometimes painful things to my body……" — Stella Young

"I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals."

— Stella Young

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41 Quotes by Stella Young

Stella Young has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in…
No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a…
I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven
I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same…
I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing.…
I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong,…
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these…
Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with…
It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by…
Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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