Quotes About Acceptance

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.

People assume I must have this fantastic body that I'm dying to show off but the truth is I have body issues - just like virtually everybody else.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

I don't think you should be ashamed of anybody that you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I'm a strong believer in that and that's why I try to do that for everyone I know that has the virus.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

It feels like for a long time we, in the LGBTQ community, have been fighting for our role, sort of fighting for our visibility and fighting for our stories.

I think the first step towards exploring the unexplored side of the LGBTQ community is to show them on screen, to create a visibility.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

I can remember when there were storylines with gay characters on shows like 'Family' and 'Dynasty' and thinking, I have something in common with that person. This was way before the Internet and all the visibility that has brought with it.

As far as being a plus-size woman, I play a plus-size character by default, and for me, the visibility - that, I think, is key.

Visibility is not, in itself, always a good thing, but when it is in the hands of those who need positive visibility, it can be.

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

There's so much visibility for trans people, for gay men and lesbians, but there's still not a lot for bisexual people.

I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.

I think it's so important to have visibility and to break down stereotypes and stigmas and everything that people are so attached to.

Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.