Stella Young Quotes

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family or than the other girl at school's family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.

So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly loved it.

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

The kids say, 'Oh are we weird somehow?' and I say, 'It's OK to be different.'

People only look at my beard for a moment. Then it melts away and it's just another part of me. It's like the most natural thing, that this is what a bearded lady looks like. It's beautiful to see.

I have to accept my life is different to most people.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.

Sometimes I'm not always doing amazing but it's okay... because everyone struggles and it's okay to be flawed because that's what makes me... Me.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Thank you for believing in my weirdness!

The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".

I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria