Quotes About Acceptance

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

I know Samantha Bee, and I know she's not a racist or anything.

I don't have beef with anyone, only martians.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging the audience to turn on you.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

Having the body you want begins with loving the body you have.

As a person in the LGBT community, I feel like I've begun to do my job.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

Being different makes you beautiful.

The tax on being different is massive.

I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.

I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

Being happy is a beauty. It's not about having the perfect face or perfect make-up.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

Those who fat shame, I want to tell them being happy has nothing to do with body weight but how one leads his or her life.