Quotes About Acceptance

I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

I will always have a stutter.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

I don't want to bulk up as that would affect my bowling and running style. I have learnt to accept my body and I handle criticism positively.

I think people are becoming more receptive to the alternative styles of drag.

The object of the Gay Games is not competition, but to promote gay and lesbian life styles.

I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work for them and their family.

I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles.

There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.

I kind of say I am a stylish geek, to make myself feel better, but I am definitely a geek.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

Death is not my best subject.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.