Quotes About Individuality

She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself

to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

purely feminine; with that extraordinary gift, that woman's gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be.

It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple.

unless I am myself, I am nobody.

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted.

She would not say of anyone that they were this or that.

There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)

They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am all prickles & promontories.

There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.

for she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa.

Continuerò ad azzardare, a cambiare, ad aprire la mente e gli occhi, rifiutando di lasciarmi incasellare e stereotipare. Ciò che conta è liberare il proprio io: lasciare che trovi le sue dimensioni, che non abbia vincoli.

You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.

any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.

Kim olduÄŸumu bilseydim umutsuzluÄŸa düÅŸerdim. 'Sen bu'sun veya ÅŸu'sun' diyen birisiyle tan??t?m ve hiçbir ÅŸey olmak istediÄŸimi hissettim.

it is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.

Così si potrebbe sostenere con qualche ragione che sono gli abiti che portano noi, e non noi che portiamo gli abiti; noi possiamo far sì che essi modellino perbene un braccio, o il petto, ma essi modellano il nostro cuore, i nostri cervelli, le nostre lingue a piacer loro.

And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door; for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect—something, after all, priceless.

upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—I am what I am, and intend to be it

In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah, but what is herself? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know, I do not believe that you know.

London has swallowed up many millions of young men called Smith; thought nothing of fantastic Christian names like Septimus with which their parents have thought to distinguish them.

Yaz? yazan birinin cinsiyetini unutmamas? çok tehlikelidir. Kat?ks?z ve basit bir erkek ya da kad?n olmak tehlikelidir; kad?ns? erkek ya da erkeksi kad?nlar olmal?y?z. (...) Ä°nsan?n zihninde kad?nla erkek aras?nda bir iÅŸbirliÄŸi oluÅŸmal?d?r ki yarat?c?l?k tamamlanabilsin.

Orlando had become a woman. In every other aspect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been

Much rather would she have been one of those people like Richard who did things for themselves, whereas, she thought, waiting to cross, half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew (and now the policeman held up his hand) for no one was ever for a second taken in. Oh if she could have had her life over again! she thought, stepping on to the pavement, could have looked even differently!