Dan Savage Quotes

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

Yes, everybody has bullied me. They kept saying I was nasal and what not.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

I was different and people made fun of me.

Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.