Quotes About Acceptance

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn't that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

Let us stop pathologizing masculinity. Instead, let us appreciate the endless ways by which men and women are similar to one another, as well as the important ways in which the two sexes differ.

I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

I've built a career on evenly entertaining men and women. And I'm kind of known for not making either side feel bad.

Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.

It's really important that we don't hang up the membership to the human community at menopause.

I didn't want to go anywhere because I hated being a woman during my menopause. I was like 'why am I a woman?' I couldn't bear it.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.