By Ryan McCarthy

You can be anything you want, teens were told this week by a speaker who emphasized how much character counts during her keynote speech at the first Talent & Fashion Show at Fairfield High School for Women’s History Month.

“We’re in a society where everything is based on how you look,” Vallejo resident Deloris Johnson said. “Everything is for the visual.”

It’s good that we want to present ourselves well, added Johnson, a mother of five children who retired after a 37-year career with Wells Fargo Bank. But work on the inside as well and be beautiful with truth, honesty and integrity, she said.

via Teens told character counts at talent, beauty event Daily Republic.