Quotes About Acceptance

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

I came out in my career talking about being sensual and being expressive. Some people can't really handle it, and that's fine. It's not for everybody. If you're one of those that can't handle it, stay up under the rock. You do that.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

I've always made the case that a baseball locker room is simply an extension of society. Every type of person you have in your large office environment is also represented in an MLB clubhouse.

I don't have great lashes. They are kind of stumpy and they won't do what I want them to. I don't want to wear falsies everyday, and I don't want to get eyelash extensions.

Just because we wear hair extensions and make-up doesn't mean we're the punchline for every joke.

I cut off my curls and got hair extensions because I felt they made me look more acceptable - more white. I just wasn't very comfortable being a mixed-race woman.

If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

I like a man with some extra padding.

I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

But I don't have any eyebrows.

Third grade, I plucked my eyebrows.

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

I am somebody who feels that we're all fabulous, every human being, and I think when we do things that aren't so fabulous, we are disconnected from who we really are.

My ethos is that every woman deserves to look and feel truly fabulous regardless of her budget, size and shape.

In 20 years, I'm going to - I'm sure - envy the body that I have now. I look fabulous and it's important to celebrate.

I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.