Fatima, 18
"Being beautiful goes beyond the superficial meaning that media and people have given it. Beauty is a complex yet fundamental part of ones being. As a woman achieving that feeling of being beautiful has been so tainted by the pressure of figuring out what it even means. Beauty is not how deep the curve of your waist is but if not how much compassion your soul is filled with. Beauty is full of edges and imperfections that we don't read about or see in magazines but we figure out in the process of coming to terms with the beauty that has been given to us. "
Kiana Maria Ruiz, 35
"Beauty is looking in the mirror and celebrating everything that makes you unique...the nose kids picked on you for, the ears you hid because they were different, the crooked smile you inherited from getting your lip caught on your braces and seeing those same things in other people and seeing how beautiful it makes them!"