Quotes About Acceptance

You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how they call it homophobia, because that's a fear of the same. It's more heterophobia. It's a fear of something different from yourself.

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

I don't like the term 'colour-blind' - because I don't want people to be blind to my colour.

I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

At some point, I thought that, as I got older, I'd come to terms with a lot of things. I'd solve some big problems, and eventually I'd become content. It's almost more depressing to think that the older you get, the more your problems multiply.

First time I had my defeat, it was very hard to come to terms with.

I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being a girl!

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

If you take going to the bench as a demotion or something that's terrible, you start with a bad attitude.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Sometimes you just have to write some days off, and I know that's a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth.