#ay

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#go #great #great way #i #kind

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#stand up #stay #stay strong #strong #up

Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#day #elite #every #focused #going

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#feel #i #i always #like #small

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#helps #i #i always #i think #look

I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#feel #helps #i #i always #i think

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#biggest #comes #day #every #every day

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#always #better #enough #good #never

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#background #being #book #come #essentially

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#because #breaks #dangerous #dangerous thing #era