I love the Katie Makkai quote that’s making the rounds again: 

“This is about my own someday daughter, when you approach me already stung stained with insecurity begging, ‘Mom, will I be pretty?’… I will wipe that question from your mouth like cheap lipstick and answer, ‘No! The word pretty is unworthy of everything you will be and no child of mine will be contained in five letters. You will be pretty intelligent, pretty creative, pretty amazing, but you will never be merely pretty.’ ”

If you haven’t seen her perform, please take a few minutes and watch this. Her already powerful words are so much more incredible in her own voice.