Quotes About Acceptance

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

More than once in the orphanage, I'd been asked if I wanted to look different. Truth is, I never did. I knew who I was when I looked into the mirror, my mother's daughter.

They looked into each other's faces; searching, renewing, re-evaluating. It was as if, without words, Rowena was saying: "I love you, and I have chosen you. There is room in our lives for other people too, now that we are sure of each other.

Svetlana felt that something had changed in her. "Some inner line of demarcation" had been drawn. Something was totally lost. She did not yet know what this meant. Oddly, she also felt a kind of peace. She did not cry.

All of them knew me, too. They knew that I had been a bad daughter and that my father had been a bad father, but that he had loved me all the same, as I loved him."21 This was the one fact she had to hold on to, as if, were she to let go of this belief, she would disappear. Once she said, "It was as though my father were at the center of a black circle and anyone who ventured inside vanished or was destroyed in one way or another.

He said God loved me, even if I was Stalin's daughter."7 The remark suggests a depth of loneliness that is devastating.

she told me that it was okay to be sensitive but that this world wasn't kind to people like me.

You can't hide from your egg, Max.

Imagine if that was the best compliment you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal",' before pointing out that, generally speaking, compliments tend to be more along the lines of 'You are extraordinary', 'You step outside the box', or 'You're amazing'. 'So if people want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be normal? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold?

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

A woman of about sixty answered the door. She had blue-white hair and a look on her face you don't see too often any more, the look of a woman who hasn't been disappointed: 'Yes

Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.

There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.