Quotes About Acceptance

My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.

To tell you the truth, I thought I would be returning kicks and punts my whole career. I thought that was going to be my deal, and I was fine with that.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

I was never cool as a kid.

I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

Gangs are formed by kids who want love.

Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.

Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

I think everyone kinda feels a little out place sometimes.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.

If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive.

I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'

I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.

We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves.

When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.

I experienced bullying as early as the first day of kindergarten and there were times where I wish could escape out of my body.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.