I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

There's a confidence you find when you finally feel right in your body.

I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

We as women need to empower each other.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.