Quotes About Acceptance

We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.

You're part of the team and you just need to accept that in the moment you need to work to get back in the team and be back involved with everybody and keep pushing yourself.

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.

Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.

Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gains 10 pounds and puts on a nose. I applaud her - good for her that she doesn't care. But she's just as good, whether she's pretty or not.

All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it.

I'm open to whatever God puts in front of me and makes my heart pitter patter.

When I'd hang out with guy friends, I'd say things like 'I just don't get along with other girls.' Just so they could think I was cooler, you know? Shamelessly trying to level myself up by putting other women down. God it's so embarrassing to admit, but it's important cause I want people to know about the growth. That I'm not perfect.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

Barbra Streisand did us all a great service when she didn't get her nose fixed.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet.

I was born with a flat nose, that's not because of boxing.

I've got a flat bum and I'm just going to have to embrace it.

Middle-class Americans really don't want to hear about sacrifices or trade-offs - except as flattering descriptions about how ready we, as a people, are, or used to be, to accept them.

Being a curvy girl, I've always, in the past, dressed just what's flattering rather than what I actually really want to wear. I'm trying to say that you can wear whatever you want.

Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

I think it's important that things are flawed.

We're all flawed, and no one is perfect.

We are all flawed people.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.