Quotes About Acceptance

Believe it or not, I loved my Jheri curl and thought it was beautiful on me. It actually made my hair grow like crazy. What they didn't tell you back then was that once you get the Jheri curl, there's no way of getting rid of it, so when I was over it, I ended up having to cut off all my hair and start all over again.

I feel like it's the last frontier: the weight thing with women. I think that so many women, like, even myself, I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes, or I can be judgmental of other people for their bodies. I don't know how to get over it.

Overall, I believe there has been a significant shift in the acceptance and appreciation of Paralympic athletes, but we still have a long way to go.

I want that to be my overall message - that we just need to love each other. We need to love other more.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The person who lets them get you down, any kind of problem, is the person that fades out. So you've got to be strong enough; you don't like it, but you've got to be strong enough to accept what's going on and that you're going to fight it or whatever it takes to overcome this matter. That's the way I feel.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.

I've always been able to overcome things, and to this day, it still bugs me that I couldn't overcome a ball to the face. But I think things worked out for the best.

Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias.

We have to look honestly at ourselves and recognize the positives, the negatives, and the challenges we can overcome.

The world is run on fear and shame. And I don't feel like we can begin to overcome these things until we speak about them openly and stop being scared of what happens as a result.

We should accept our fears and try to overcome them.

I had to overcome this fear. Fear of what people think.

I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

You're not going to overlook people just because of the awkwardness.

I didn't feel like I had as many fans as the other girls. It was a strange feeling. I never thought that it was because I was the darkest member of the band. I felt overlooked. So I did everything to make myself more noticed, convinced I wasn't good enough.

Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.

Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.