Anita Hill Quotes

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be.

I watched a million coming-out videos, and that was kind of how I accepted it myself.

We all have our own closets to come out of.

I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.

I'm the person I am because of all the support we have but inside there is still a scared, gay kid, worried he's going to get bullied and people aren't going to like what I do.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

The moment I realised anyone could be watching - and this is going to sound so name-droppy - was when Ricky Martin reached out to me on Coming Out Day 2012. The Internet has this massive potential, and you can never know the effect you might have on others by just being yourself.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

There have been times in my life when I have felt like I can't go out without my makeup on. But now I just put on some dark glasses so people can't see if I look rough!

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

I realize it's a cliche, almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.