“She accepted that—not reconciled: accepted-- as though there is a breathing-point in outrage where you can accept it almost with gratitude since you can say to yourself, Thank God that is all; at least I know it all.”

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

“He should accept me as I am!” says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.”

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

“You are mine,” he rasped. “Only ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together.”

“We can accept any and all events in our existence if we believe our mothers love us. For, as I say, she was, and still is, all the world to us.”

“I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.”