Quotes About Individuality

I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.

Most everyone wears black--except for anchorwomen, United States senators, and residents of Texas, and I feel really bad for them. I mean, black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.

Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

Stop thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something to talk about.

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan. And as able to make something strong between us.

I move at a pace that suits me.

I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

It doesn't matter. That's the point. It doesn't matter that my mother is my mother, or that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. I know that better than anyone, but I never let it apply to me. Not to me. People matter, how they feel, how they connect, who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes. What matters is you're the blue butterfly.

People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway

Oh, it was just me—that's why

It shows who we are. We're making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we're okay. They couldn't take who we are away from us. We're who we are despite them.

Lived their lives as they chose to live. That's a real victory, don't you think, living as you choose to live?

How we ever came from the same parents is a wonder. Nothing suits you more than a crowd, and nothing suits me less.

I won't argue. It's different for everyone, isn't it? Love, magick, and how we see and deal. And in each, the choices we make.

Girl, take it from an old queen: be who you are and the hell with the rest.

Take a few minutes. No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to. Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

I don't give a damn what they say about me, but nobody's going to talk behind their hands about you. Where the hell did you get that skirt? he exploded. Tarts U Us?

There's never been anyone like you. I keep worrying that I'll make the wrong move.

Blood didn't tell. DNA didn't make us. We made ourselves, if we had any guts we made ourselves.

Baby, you are normal. It doesn't mean you can't be special.