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Quotes About Acceptance

To be accepted, the truth must fit people's frames. If the facts do not fit a frame, the frame stays and the facts bounce off. Why?
~ George Lakoff
For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.
~ Alek Wek
I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
~ Patrick Demarchelier
Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.
~ Andie MacDowell
I think for men and women, there's a different dynamic when it comes to love. Because I feel like a man who falls in love with a woman falls harder than a woman falling for a man. We're not emotionally as accepting as women are.
~ Goldlink
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six. It's very hard for a large group of women to maintain a thinness which is, after all, only natural to a few people.
~ Andie MacDowell
Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
~ Camryn Manheim
Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.
~ Daisy Lowe
Fat women are the last minority. I think it's the shape of our culture. What is to be admired is girls with the bodies of 14-year-old boys.
~ Conchata Ferrell
People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'
~ Sung Hi Lee
I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.
~ Monica Keena
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
~ Octavia Spencer
There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.
~ Connie Britton
When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
~ Malin Akerman
Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
~ Tamsin Greig
We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.
~ Loni Love
Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.
~ Ellie Kemper
I have learnt that women are superior beings. They have a higher threshold of pain and are more understanding and accepting than men. Also, if you listen to them, you'll understand them better.
~ Arjun Kapoor
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
~ Maya Angelou
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
~ Ryan White
In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
~ Pele