Amyra Dastur Quotes

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

I'm very lucky I haven't gone through a lot of bullying, and I'm also home schooled.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.

I know how bad bullying can hurt. I was bullied when I was a kid.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

People threw food at me and sang songs about how ugly I was.