Quotes About Acceptance

I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

That's the spirit in which I went to New York to be with my husband, and when I knocked on the hotel door, she opened the door as Caitlyn as we now know her - full makeup and fully dressed as a woman. So it was devastating to me to see because I had envisioned Bruce opening the door, but it was helpful in my process.

I appreciate the city of New York just embracing me, and Brooklyn in general.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

The people who are bullying you, they're insecure about who they are, and that's why they're bullying you. It never has to do with the person they're bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they're not alone.

You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.

Life's so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.

Just because you're not thin does not mean you're ugly. You are beautiful because of the light you carry inside you. You are beautiful because you say you are, and you hold yourself that way.

Try your hardest to be confident in who you are. You are enough - you are beautiful.

I just want everyone to know you are beautiful in your own skin.

How many years did I waste worrying about the way I look? I'm almost 60 and it has taken me all these years. Don't wait until you get to my age to realize that you are beautiful.

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.