adina

"I think being called too much has been great for molding my character and actually finding strength in who I am."

#toopretentious #toointense #tooabsent #toopresent #toomessy #tootalkative #toospoilt #toostubborn
ailie

"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."

#toopassionate #toomanly #tooslutty
alice

"I am not too much, I am too much for you, but I am not too much for this moment, I am the better player."

#tootalented #sports #tootall
amanda

"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."

#tooblack #toonice #toosensitive #tooindependent #toohonest
amandeep

"My parents didn't know how to deal with this #toomuch of a child and it has taken me to get to 33 to be happy with who I am."

#tooloud #toocarefree #toopretty #tooaggressive #tooindependent #tooargumentative #toomouthy #toohappy
amina

"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!"

#toopassionate #toodriven #patriarchyismad #toopicky #tooaggressive
annabel

"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."

#toosexy #tooemotional #toomuch #tooattentionseeking
anne

"I'm too loud when I laugh and I'm too loud when I fuck."

#tooloud #tootall #tooskinny #toocrazy #toostubborn
annie

"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."

#tooblack #tooquiet #tooackward #toodeep #toonice #toodifferent
beatriz

"I have been called, the most common one, too loud."

#tooloud #toosmart
becka

"Because you just erode yourself for others people’s comfort all the time."

#activist #toopolitical #toomuchmakeup #tooloud #toosensitive #tooloud
catherine

"Women are not here to fix you."

#tooargumentative #tooantagonistic
charlotte

"As a girl I was told 'you cannot take up too much space' and 'you talk too much'."

#toodemanding #tooperfectionist #tootalkative #tooloud
collette

"Being assertive has been great for me in global roles outside of English politeness. People like you being direct."

#toomuch #tooloud #tooquiet #tooassertive #tooaccommodating
cristiana

"I feel like I am always the different one."

#toodifferent #toofeminist
danielle

"It’s taken me a little bit to go back to my child-like 'I'm fine, I'm wonderful' feeling."

#poet #toocold #toodistant
diana

"The stories that we tell become our future. "

#toomuchofawoman #toosensitive #toointense #tooarrogant #tooemotional #tooprovocative
elia

"Be your too much. It's important to listen to yourself."

#toogirly #toosensitive
ella

"You're right, you’re not a pain in the ass… These things that are a problem today will be your biggest strengths."

#southoffrance #toofeminist #tooopinionated
ellen

"This was who you were then and that is what it is. Through writing I understand more of myself."

#toosensitive #writer
emilie

"My own best friend said: 'You know you are going to die alone if you don't stop being you'. I was like 'here's hoping'. "

#tooloud #tooquiet #toodomineering #toofat #toonice #tooopinionated #toofeminist #toofunny #scotland
emma

"Keep going, be strong, be wonderful."

#nimes #artist #toointense #nimes #france
emma

"I think the biggest time that I felt I was being called too much was in my last relationship."

#stylist #tooemotional #tooneedy #relationships
emma

"I was often being told 'calm down, you're getting too worked up' if I didn't agree with something–usually a social justice issue."

#tooworkedup #toomuch #toopassionate #tooemotional #tooupset
erinn

"I was 'too much' for some in my artwork."

#tooweird #toofunny
esmeralda

"Loving and accepting yourself in a culture that profits from you not loving and accepting yourself is fucking hard!"

#toopositive #toointense
franko

"Being me helped me feel happier and made me feel free. Just own it. Life is too short."

#toofemme #nonbinary #LGBTTQQIAAP #tooextra #toogirly #toomuch #tooworthless #toogay #serbia
gemma

"In Italy I am 'too muscular', 'too lax in the kitchen', 'too American', 'too sensitive'."

#toobutch #LGBTTQQIAAP #tooquiet #toodramatic #tooheadinclouds #toofriendly #toojudgemental #toodefensive #toomuscular #tooskinny #toofat #tooopinionated #toosentimental #toosilly #tooyoung #toowideeye #tooliberal #toofriendlyamerican
halima

"People say I'm a crazy woman wanting to change the world."

#toomuchofawoman #toocaring #toohappy #tooindecisive #toopositive #tooinconsistant
harri

"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."

#bodypositivity #tooloud #tootall #toobig #toofat
helen

"Your senses are so heightened and it's 'too much'."

#toosensitive #toomagical
heli

"I want everyone to have one person who believes in them and if I could be that person I would."

#tooloud #toodisruptive #toocomplex #tooquick #toochallenging #toostrong #tooenthusiastic #toodemanding
holly

"You'll regret not being yourself more than being 'too much'."

#tooloud #toopassionate #toooutspoken #tooinclusive #tooethusiastic
holly

"You'll figure it out."

#assertive #toofeminist #toofat #toothin #tooginger #tooshort #toopale
hyacinth

"The more I'm living my truth I'm finding it isn't hurting people. It's really liberating."

#toocaring #tooopinionated #tooopen #tooblack #toorebellious #tooassertive #toospiritual
inesa

"I really don't care what you think about me because I don't think about you at all."

#toopretty #toosexual #toosmart #tootalented
irina

"I've been called 'too adamant' about my own identity to be a woman."

#toomuchofaboy #toobutch #LGBTTQQIAAP #nonbinary #bucharest
janine

"As you get older you start to care less about what other people think and more about how things are affecting your mind and your happiness."

#tooloud #tooaggressive
jemma

"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."

#tooangsty #tooloud #nonbinary
jenny

"It's the way people say it rather than what they actually say."

#tooethusiastic #spreadingmyselftoothin
jenny

"Am I doing too much? Am I trying too hard to look normal?"

#toofake #toooutspoken #toomuch #tooshy
jessica

"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."

#toointimidating #dontdimyourlight
joanna

"People told me I looked too straight to be gay."

#toostraighttobegay #toointimidating #LGBTTQQIAAP
john

"Be wary of the amount of work you are doing."

#tooopinionated #tooblack #nonbinary #LGBTTQQIAAP
karla

"Maybe if you had the freedom to speak out your mind in a polite way, maybe this kind of anger wouldn't be necessary."

#tooangry
kat

"It’s like if you were different then you could stay. If you weren't you, then you’d be welcome here. But as you are, it’s too much."

#toosensitive #tooemotional
katarina

"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.” "

#tooindependant #serbia
kathryn

"Figure out who you are and learn to love you. Because not everyone is going to like it, but you should."

#tootalkative #toonoisy #tooloud
kirsty

"Don’t be afraid to speak out. Don’t let yourself be silenced. If you know you are doing the right thing then just go ahead and do it."

#tooopinionated #tooambitious #toodetermined
kylie

"Try not to be mean and if you are say sorry."

#toosensitive #toostraighttobegay
laura

"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."

#toointimidating #toooutspoken #toosensitive #sexualharrassment #scotland
lazar

"Why do you need to tell me something like that? Go and live your life."

#toofeminine #LGBTTQQIAAP #nonbinary #serbia
lizzie

"I think when you spend time with yourself, you learn more about who you are, what you are, and you care less about what other people say and think."

#tooemotional #tooangry #tooneedy #tooweird #toobusy
lottie

"Be your own cheerleader."

#worrytoomuch #toobossy #toodominating #toonice #scotland
mari

"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."

#toomasculine #tooeuropean #toomuscley #berlin #dancer
maria

"I don't have to call it a moment of weakness. I will be stronger if I accept all of myself because then I won't have a weakness."

#tooopinionated #toomuchofanalien #tooyoungtochangetheworld #toobrown #tooasian #tooambitious #talktoomuch #nonbinary #toodramatic
mariagrazia

"Our revolution in the late sixties was against a family situation that would pass the woman from owned by her father to owned by her a husband. "

#tooindependant #toofemale #artist #architect #italy
mariavittoria

"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."

#tooindependent #tooplayful #toopolitical #toocommunist #italy
martha

"Someone said to me as an adult “you let a lot of light in”. I suppose some people just need to put on sunglasses."

#tooclever #tooexuberant #toointense #tooexcited #toneitdown #toointimidating
mathilde

"I'm not behaving the way I should behave, but what even is that?"

#toonaive #tooindependant
megan

"Oh Megan's sensitive but I'll try not to show it to them but I'll feel it inside."

#toosensitive #toodramatic #toofeminine
mette

"I'm taking the fucking mic. "

#toomuch #tooloud
molly

"Why do I always feel as though I am living under this male gaze and that I am being consumed? It's relentless. My rage is real."

#tooemotional #tooskinny #toofat #toosensitive #toowoman #toofeminist
myarose

"I think our system is completely structured to quieten girls and empower boys."

#tooloud #toobold #tooopinionated #abilitytotalk #tooyoung #bristol
nancy

"Too high maintenance is just that I know what I want. And I know what I like and I know what makes me feel good. And I get those things."

#tooshy #tooargumentative #toohighmaintenance #toochildish #toofat #bucharest
nellie

"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?"

#tooloud #toopoliticallycorrect #toofeminine #toogay #toovalley #tooliberal #toosocialist #berlin
nina

"What do they expect? It's the same with 'too emotional' it makes you feel more emotional and it makes you feel ashamed. "

#toosmall #tooangry #tooemotional #toosensitive
nina

"Women are in the room and women are listening."

#tooemotive #toomuchpresence #tooloud
nina

"You just have to be more around extraordinary things which are not in your daily life."

#tootalkative #tootall #toobig #doingtoomuch #givingtoomuch
nooshin

"I am not normal. I don't want to be normal. I will never be normal, whatever that is."

#toosensitive #toomanyfeelings #tooreactive
patrycja

"I see my positivity and enthusiasm about things and my independence as super powers."

#toounrealistic #toopositive #tooenthusiastic
penni

"My path has always led me to say 'well why is it like that? It doesn't have to be like that."

#wanttoomuch #tooinquisitive #toomanyquestions #expecttoomuch
penny

"Where you have a gender construct of 'man' or 'woman' and you're not picking, some people can't digest or understand that."

#toodifficult #toodifferent #notbeingheard #nonbinary
phoebe

"I used to have a Youtube channel about makeup when I was 12. I stopped it because it was 'too much' for the bullies at school."

#toougly #toofat #toonice #toogullible #toodramatic #toopolitical #toooverdressed #toomuchmakeup
priscilla

"How sweet the sound of your depth of being, met the depth of my being."

#toomuchofaperson #ADHD #tooloud #musician #twenties #toointense #toohyper #toosensitive #poet
rakhi

"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. "

#tooemotional #tooneedyforlove #tooforgiving
rébecca

"Small acts of kindness really matter."

#tooopinionated #tooassertive #tooaggressive #tooemotional #toosensitive
rejane

"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."

#toosensitive #toofat #tooplain #tooshort
rosie

"Too much for what?"

#tootalkative #toooutgoing #toobossy
ruby

"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."

#tooemotional #toomuch #tootall #takinguptoomuchspace #tooangry
sabina

"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."

#thinktoomuch #berlin #LGBTTQQIAAP
sally

"I would stand up and commend any woman who will stand up and fight and talk."

#toounderstanding #toocompasionate #toocaring
sandra

"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."

#toopleasing #doeverythingforeveryone #tooemotional
sanjana

"Next time someone is doing well instead of bringing them down pull them up, let them grow and they will help you too. "

#toodifficult #tooannoying #toosensitive #tooauthoratative
shara

"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."

#tooshy #toosensitive #tooemotional #tooessex #tooquiet #tooskinny
sharon

"For me it's like pandora's box, once that box had been opened I found myself thinking, questioning every single thing about myself."

#tooungrateful
sofia

"Women of the world, if somebody tells you you're too skinny, who the fuck cares as long as your relationship with food is good."

#toomuch #toobooby #tooskinny
sophie

"Why do I have to have this smile on my face and be chit chatty and cutesy for you?"

#tooaggressive #toocompetitive #toobossy #tooargumentative #toocrazy
sophie

"It's been so empowering to have my story and turn it into something good and own the narrative around it as well."

#tooquiet #toomuchoversharing
stella

"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."

#toonice #toomuchofapushover
sue

"People criticise your hair but they don't mean your hair, they mean everything else. They mean you're just taking up too much attention."

#tooclever #toomuchhair #toomuchnoise #toomuchattention
sunaina

"You do you."

#toosensitive #toomodern #toointimidating
tanya

"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."

#toosensitive #tooslutty #toofrigid
teodora

"They are scared and when they see someone in full shine. They are jealous."

#LGBTTQQIAAP #tooskinny #toofeminine #toosmart #toonice #toobeautiful #toointelligent #tookind #toomuchofajunkie #toogay #toodepressed #serbia
timea

"Whenever there’s a situation, just be brave and courageous and stand up for it…be yourself…just go for it…"

#tooemotional #toosensitive #toocold
vicky

"Imagine if we all held hands and made an effort together. What we could achieve would be incredible…"

#tooloud #toomuchofapartyanimal #toomuchofaguy #workingtoomuch
victoire

"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."

#toosensitive #toofeminist #wantingtoomuchconsent #nomeansno #mentalhealth #nonbinary #paris
virginie

"Keep it up...Whatever happens, I'll be fine…"

#toopositive
zahra

"Just be who you are..."

#tooopinionated #toodifferent #berlin
zen

"Why is fat shaming not ok and skinny shaming is? Why is body shaming womxn OK fullstop? "

#LGBTTQQIAAP #tooskinny #tooboyish #toocompetitive #tootalkative #toougly #toofat #tooshy #tooaggressive #serbia
zoe

"Every single behavior you can have or do has positives and negatives…Get out there and be too much!"

#tooshy #tooclever #toooutspoken

john

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