Quotes About Acceptance

Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Hopefully, it gets to a point where, down the line, people don't have to come out.

I just don't touch my brows! Hopefully, leaving them be will pay off so that I still have them in the future.

Hopefully, no one will feel self-conscious in anything that I've designed.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

I feel like if you don't put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

My constant advice to my family - 'hopes high, expectations low' - is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.

Obviously, I'm going to be embarrassing to the kid. There's just no way not. I just hope the kid has a really good sense of humor... My husband's very serious - he doesn't find me funny at all - so I'm hoping the kid is like, 'Mom is hilarious!' That'd be really great.

Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building empathy.

I have often been many companies' first experience with a gender-variant model. I am proud of that because I think I have broadened their horizons in my own way.

It's really hard being old - it's horrible.

Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.

I'm a horrible golfer.

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.

I'm a normal, horrible, screwed up human being like everyone else. I mean, I'm not horrible person, but I'm just as screwed up as anybody.

I came out because I fell in love. It wasn't a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.

Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

Nobody wants to hear horrible things about themselves.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.