Rupi Kaur Quotes

People don't follow me around, and they don't stop me in a way where it's excessive or invasive. It's always respectful. If it's not, I set my boundaries, and I walk away. That's just what you kind of have to do.

You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech.

I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.

No one has the right to make where you go or what you do uncomfortable.

They can't hang outside my hotel or come to the gym and stare at me for a half hour and expect me to be like, 'Cool. Awesome.'

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

You have to find a way to protect yourself in a certain way from people who are constantly demanding your time.

I don't eat with beautiful women alone.

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.

You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.

People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.

Guys always follow me into the bathroom and ask for pictures and stuff.

It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.