"It's only recently that I have gone back and rediscover who I really am and not give a damn when I am too much for some people because it is their problem."
"One thing I know: you can only be yourself and express yourself the best you in a safe space. I suppose when you are in that safe space with the right people around you then those things that are perceived as negatives are then perceived as positives."
"Things like science, that supposed to be objective and grounded in research and numbers and everything, are still influenced by certain attitudes. Patriarchy is mad!"
"I'm too much by society's standards but I feel like they're too little and I'm tired of letting people, who don't have the balls to live their lives to the fullest, tell me that I'm not good enough because they are too small."
"I believe as human beings we are all individual and all unique and that is our power and I think our power is taken away from us when we are forced to conform."
"Be loud, be quiet, be 'out there', be whatever you want to be! No one is too much. And I'm not too much. I am who I am - and I'm totally ok with that."
"He called me a stage hog and I was like WOW. I was so amazed that he would come up to me and say that. I'm pretty sure that if I had been a six foot guy he probably wouldn't have."
"When someone says a kid is 'too much' of something they can't and shouldn't change. Stop saying those little things because that's where it starts. It's all those tiny building blocks that form a life."
"I just came and I said “Sorry, I don’t know anything, I quit job, I have a baby and decided to prove it to the world that I am the best and to conquer the world.” "
"I was in conversation with some male friends. One of my male friends told me I was 'too intimidating'. I was taken aback but I realised later that that was his problem."
"Me comes out the most when I'm on stage. I love that when I'm on stage I can just be who I am. It doesn't matter whatever they call me because on stage no one can tell you anything."
"I was called 'too playful' but that same playfulness was my salvation and helped me get through my time in jail. In isolation I would see how far I could spit and play with my mandarin peel."
"Do I really have to be the one to be the one to raise you right now, and be your mom, and tell to you that harassing people in the street on their way home is not ok?"
"Too much love' and getting too little. It’s the point at which you realise that actually, this wasn't my fault, I'm not to blame and I don't need to be anything other than myself. "
"When I hear that (you're too much) I say and I think to myself, yes, you are right, that's who I am. You've got two options, you can either accept and deal with it or you can leave right now."
"Rather than letting that anger out, that anger gets turned back on myself and I think it's such a defining part of how I've become the woman that I am today."
"I was told that I think too much and I thought, ok, maybe I do overthink, but it made me angry. I think we should think in every possible way you can. There is no over thinking, it's impossible to do."
"I can not stop being 'too much' it is not in my nature, but there has to be some sort of equilibrium of how much I give and how much I get, take or what remains for myself."
"I am that I've got my PHD, if anything, if anyone is going to take me seriously it's because of that, that's my weapon. Wherever I end up I've still got my education and something to be proud of."
"I think where some people get it wrong is making you feel bad for how you are, rather than encouraging you for sort of becoming a better version of yourself."
"Constantly being told 'that's too much' so you try, maybe without noticing, you try to lower something which has a knock on effect to your self esteem."
"I think that as a woman who has been having mental health issues since she was 15 you get silenced a lot. And I didn't want that to define me so I just kept quiet."
