Mallory Ortberg Quotes

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

People trash talk me.

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

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I was told I'm disgusting, that I belong in a dumpster, that I'm going to hell... just the worst things you could say to somebody.

There were moments where I was called many derogatory names. I've gotten into a couple of fights. People have jumped me. You know, I've had a lot of things that have happened to me, but I look past those things now.

The truth is, when girls are mean to you or make fun of you, it's because there's something wrong with them.

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.

I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump.

There will have been girls my age who stopped playing because of the spiteful things that were said to them.

As a kid back home in Texas, I was followed by sales associates in stores and called derogatory names more times than I can count.

My father was just an evil man.

I've been bullied. A lot.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

There is no excuse for using someone's mental health as a stick with which to beat them.

We don't need more bullying, and I'm tired of it.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the ear, saying: 'What are you going to do about that, faggot?' That is cowardice. When the bullets start flying past that jock's saucer-shaped ears, that's not cowardice. That's payback.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.