Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
Interpretation
Embracing differences is essential for personal and societal growth, rather than simply tolerating them.
Kate Bornstein's quote emphasizes the importance of not just accepting or tolerating differences among individuals, but actively celebrating them. In a world where conformity is often favored, recognizing the courage it takes to be different can foster a more inclusive and vibrant society, ultimately contributing to our collective growth and understanding.
In practice
In a speech promoting diversity at a workplace event.
I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to a lot of people's rules on this sort of thing. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other-a world that doesn't bother to tell us exactly what one or the other is.
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.
People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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