Quotes About Acceptance

I recognise that, while I was fortunate enough to grow up without any discrimination or stigma attached at all, other people haven't been so lucky.

The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly.

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

Getting over the stigma of needing to appear as if I do it all myself took about 12 months. I finally realized that the only way to be a successful, happy mother, founder, wife, and daughter was to accept the help that was being offered to me.

The ball scene was never really only gay people. I think people have this notion that if there's a man hanging around a gay man, he must be gay, but that's just stigma. Back in the day, it was the same; there were lots of different people there: gay, straight, whatever. They did not care what they were called because they knew who they were.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

You can be curvy and still be absolutely flawless.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

I mean, there are a lot of big people out there that they're still very beautiful people.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

I've got to like myself, I think, through my relationship with Sting, who pours love over me.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

The rules that enabled me to compete first went into effect in 2003. They are known as the Stockholm consensus with the IOC, but I think even 10 years ago the world perhaps wasn't ready for an athlete like myself - and perhaps it is not ready now.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

Age doesn't affect me. With ALS, I am just stoked to have another year.

I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.