Quotes About Acceptance

I've had a lot of stories done on me because of my height, but that's OK. I don't feel like an exhibit. If that's what it takes to get noticed, that's fine.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to be a novelty, like 'Oh, she has three arms! Check her out.' But I've learned to accept it as more of a compliment.

Mental health is not a novelty; it's part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.

Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.

I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.

Everyone has a bad day now and then.

I believe homosexuality is very common these days. Nowadays, gay communities are asking for their rights, asking to abolish Article 377. Every religion has homosexuals and lesbians.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

At the end of the day, life and the way things are nowadays, you have to mentally prepare your kids. Whether I'm with a woman or not, walking down the street with my son, he's going to see a man and a man holding hands, so eventually I have to give him that conversation.

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I really want to go.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.