Rain Dove Quotes

"Dove is encouraging people to set their own standards worldwide. To be their own unique selves. To not allow others to shame them for accepting their own bodies and styles."

"I am a 100 percent determined to be a Victoria's Secret model."

"We the people have the power to decide who we want to see in our advertisements and how we want the world to be portrayed. If we show that being ethical and being diverse is profitable, they're going to market to us."

"I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard."

"Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a sound. All I'm listening for in that sound is positivity."

"Part of the beauty of Victoria's Secret modeling is that they are called 'Angels' for a reason - because they're aesthetics are supposed to be unobtainable. But so are mine. No one could ever be me. Look exactly as I do. Be exactly as I am."

"My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there."

"Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It's environmental armor."

"There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood."

"I'm constantly told in the industry that I don't look like a woman, so therefore, I can't be put in editorials and campaigns because people wouldn't get it."

"Some people say there's a reason that Victoria's Secret wouldn't put me or any woman who doesn't fit within a certain spectrum on the runway."

"I just see clothing as cloth, and I see it as art, and I see it as a way to express yourself artistically in this world."

"My state of being is just unique."

"Gender doesn't exist in my book."

"I love the body I have."

"You don't see Victoria's Secret women running around with even short hair. That's too crazy for them."

"I want to tell people that there are more ways to be beautiful, there are more ways to be handsome."

"The face of beauty literally needs to change, which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well."

"Designers and advertisers like the idea of my breasts, waist line, long legs, and long neck - but have literally made gagging noises at my facial features."

"The reason people wear the things that they wear and accept the standards that they accept is because most athletes make a good portion of their money in advertising and doing campaigns afterwards."

"The Olympics represent a global standard - for men, for women, for athletics."

"What it means to look like a woman or man changes regionally - from mannerisms to clothes to posture to makeup to even your vocals - so I just observe, and I replicate."

"The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience."

"I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance."

"I identify with my body, but I don't identify it as male or female; I just identify it as a vehicle to help me bring my awareness around the world."

"All victims deserve justice."

"Justice can rarely exist without honesty."

"I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles."

"Confrontation makes me nervous."

"You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin."