Quotes About Acceptance

We know that homosexuality is not limited to any race, religion, or socioeconomic class—it is part of human diversity.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid.

We expect perfection and we're constantly disappointed. If we could adjust our expectations—if our expectations were more realistic—more relationships that could and should survive would survive.

An artist on Esperance had once said to me, "Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat ... it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

Yes. That's why it's so hard to look in a mirror. You are looking at yourself, but you don't recognize yourself. It's a shock. The person you see is older, and heavier, and has wrinkles. But you don't feel that way inside, and it's hard to believe that's how you really look now, how other people see you.

Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive.

Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.

You will never get death out of your system.

If I've learned one thing, its that we can't live in regret. God doesn't want that for our lives.~ Barrett Thorn

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does.

Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again.

I want things to be normal. I want you to call me and tell me about your life. I want to hear about Ally, and I want to talk politics. I want to garden, and walk my dog. I want my life as it is and and as it has been, until I die.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

I am Nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.

I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.

Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.

I'd still be a goofy frog because, guess what, I like being a frog.

I don't want to miss all of God's little surprises because I'm tied in knots over something I can't change.