Zoe Quinn Quotes

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

Like many others who stand out, I was picked on.

I was different and people made fun of me.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

American life will not be transfomed by bullying.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

It was hard to feel hated as a child.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

A group of girls didn't like me and picked on me on a daily basis.

Kids will always find something to pick on, whether it's your color, your religion, the way you look, your size. You try and stand up for yourself, but it's really difficult when you've got 20 or 30 girls against you.

Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

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 wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

I got bullied in high school. A lot of girls were so mean to me because their boyfriends wanted to hang out with me and my girls, so they pretty much bullied me to the point where I was crying at night.

People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.