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You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.