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“For me, it felt like a ploy to somehow shut me down, to get me to hide, to be quiet, to erase myself, all at the exact moment in my life when I had gained the most intelligence, the most wisdom, and the most confidence.”
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
“Why in society is the idea that an older woman's face need to be fixed? ...Why did we get from facelifts being unusual to 'Yes'? Why are we even suggesting that all these women need to fix their faces?
...There's an absolute opportunity for anyone to grab onto [aging] and say... even if you spend five minutes going, 'Hey, I look great!' and then notice what comes up: what fear comes up? That's how I go through it: whatever irrational fear comes up I've got to write it down or say it out loud so I can expose it and it can start to erode.”
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...There's an absolute opportunity for anyone to grab onto [aging] and say... even if you spend five minutes going, 'Hey, I look great!' and then notice what comes up: what fear comes up? That's how I go through it: whatever irrational fear comes up I've got to write it down or say it out loud so I can expose it and it can start to erode.”
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“I think getting all this plastic surgery is just people pleasing... You don't want people to criticize you anymore so you appease them. The more you do that, the further away you get away from your true self. It doesn't work for me. If somebody said to me now we could do some surgery, wouldn't I be signalling that I'm super insecure? To me, it would.”
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“I feel sad for [women who use botox]. I feel sad that they're not just enjoying life.
I feel sad that they are distracted from the things they're meant to do in life, with this consuming idea that they've got to fix their face before anything else can happen.
Forget about your face! That is what I’m saying. Get rid of the fear that your face being wrinkled is going to ruin a bunch of opportunities for you.
You can certainly look in the mirror and go "Oh, if I just had like a lower facelift I would get rid of this skin that catches the light, and then I could have that operation where you go into the eyelid, or you know take some of the skin out and this that's hanging over now, over the eyelid, you can get that removed."
Sure, you can do all of that, but even with that I would just... I feel like I would erase not only all my authority that I have now, but also I like feeling that I'm a different person now than I was when I was 20.
I like looking in the mirror and seeing that evidence.”
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I feel sad that they are distracted from the things they're meant to do in life, with this consuming idea that they've got to fix their face before anything else can happen.
Forget about your face! That is what I’m saying. Get rid of the fear that your face being wrinkled is going to ruin a bunch of opportunities for you.
You can certainly look in the mirror and go "Oh, if I just had like a lower facelift I would get rid of this skin that catches the light, and then I could have that operation where you go into the eyelid, or you know take some of the skin out and this that's hanging over now, over the eyelid, you can get that removed."
Sure, you can do all of that, but even with that I would just... I feel like I would erase not only all my authority that I have now, but also I like feeling that I'm a different person now than I was when I was 20.
I like looking in the mirror and seeing that evidence.”
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“If you are absent the work it takes to peck your way out of the eggshell, you will be absent the strength it takes to live outside of that eggshell.”
― Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
― Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
“people will accept what you tell them to accept. You tell them they have a flaw so you can sell them your remedy, the remedy they already didn’t need.”
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
“...every dissatisfaction we have with ourselves is an opportunity to like ourselves more.”
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
“To me, it's just... there's two ages: dead or alive, and you're one or the other... My whole goal is just to become the most me possible. And that to me involves getting rid of any buttons I've got. So I'm not making any fear-based decisions. I'm just making instinct based decisions.
When I was young I had, of course I had a lot of buttons, which causes you to people please and, do things that aren't you. And then over, many years I have a process of understanding what my root fear was that caused me to behave contrary to who I am. And yeah. The more one does that, the more one can be themselves.”
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When I was young I had, of course I had a lot of buttons, which causes you to people please and, do things that aren't you. And then over, many years I have a process of understanding what my root fear was that caused me to behave contrary to who I am. And yeah. The more one does that, the more one can be themselves.”
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“I would say to any young woman, you're being lied to. Who is making money off this? You're being lied to and you're being tricked off your path... You've got awesome things coming your way. Just stay on your path and just ride it out.
Some people are afraid they'll lose their job or never get a job or not get a mate or no one's going to listen to them or whatever... And that fear, my position is, that fear existed before their face started changing.
I'm just somebody who got myself on the other side of what that fear was for me in particular, and I'm just sharing what worked for me... Lots of ways to get there, but for anyone who wants to get free.”
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Some people are afraid they'll lose their job or never get a job or not get a mate or no one's going to listen to them or whatever... And that fear, my position is, that fear existed before their face started changing.
I'm just somebody who got myself on the other side of what that fear was for me in particular, and I'm just sharing what worked for me... Lots of ways to get there, but for anyone who wants to get free.”
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“perpetrate against yourself.”
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
“If you cannot change anything around you, if you know you can't change anything around you, you turn to that last card, the one you are "in control of," the option to change yourself. And if you can't convince yourself that all the good events are hinged on changes you make to your look, well then, you've got a card of unknown value, the last one, there in the river, that you can turn over again and again and again. There is no end to the number of changes you can perpetrate against yourself. No end to the number of times you can turn that glorious card.”
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
“the idea that half the population was perhaps spending the entire second half of their lives ashamed and apologetic that their faces had aged naturally. For me, it felt like a ploy to somehow shut me down, to get me to hide, to be quiet, to erase myself, all at the exact moment in my life when I had gained the most intelligence, the most wisdom, and the most confidence.”
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
― Face: One Square Foot of Skin
