Quotes About Acceptance

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

You cannot make horses 'safe.'

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.

Even the most achieved life ends up in the hospital with your body and brain falling into pieces.

Hospitality knows no gender or race.

I always said I would never leave 'Big Brother' unless I was sacked or not wanted, so if it does go elsewhere and they want a new host then fair enough, but I'll be devastated.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?

I was not the hot, popular girl in school.

In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.

When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

I know I was not the hottest chick at school!

I love my hourglass figure.

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

There's no perfect household anywhere.

I grew up in an upper-income household, in an accepting environment, and with incredible educational opportunities.

I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or 'less than.'

Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little kid, I didn't feel fully accepted by black kids and I definitely didn't feel fully accepted by white kids cause I just felt like I could never be neither one.

I don't hate any of the Housewives.

Sometimes I get a lot of stuff, being in Houston, being in a conservative place, and wearing weird stuff that I wear. People don't get it sometimes. I like it.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.