Beauty cannot possibly be youth alone:that is like earth stopping at autumn and sayingthat is enough.—I want to see all of you

I believe you do not deserve words like “anti-wrinkle” and “anti-aging.” Your experience as a woman is much too rich to be rewritten in favor of artificial youthfulness.

When I would later ask her, What makes someone beautiful?, she would tell me: 'I think it’s what’s inside someone. I think it’s kindness in someone’s heart that makes them beautiful.' And she would add, 'And it’s how they treat others.' Compassion is beauty, too.

She represents a step toward creating a world where you can have Down syndrome and still dream big. Where you can have Down syndrome and still be seen as beautiful and worthy.

I don’twantto waituntil I’m 73 toembracemy body.To look backand think ofmy beauty:How did Imiss it?Let’s not wait another moment.

Sing hallelujah because your body isunmatched.And, because of that,it is keenly desirable—a rare, one of kindcreated by the Artist herself.

I just wanted to remind us:every shape and way of being is tempting,not because it’s your job to bedesirable, but because the form you come inwas ordered up by Godand that’s madly rousing.

Only between us,we are everything,and that is our beauty.

Starving (adj.)—When the only self-talkyou gorge yourself on isugly.—your beauty is so lush you could feast on it