Height Privilege Quotes

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

I can understand why people laugh and make jokes, but I'm comfortable with being this tall. It's not as if I've had a sudden growth spurt. I've always been like this, so I get used to the constant height references.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

I am proud of my height.

In England, I'm just another tall guy!

I've always been the tallest; I didn't shoot up. That's who I am.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I think when you're a tall girl, you feel a little bit like an outcast. You have to go to the back of the photo. You're taller than all the boys. I know I felt more like an outsider. And then as I got older, I just got used to it. I got like, 'I don't date under 6 feet.' That's my policy.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I was always the tallest kid in my class.

Being short works for me.

I have been stared at my whole life because of my height.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.

I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.