Quotes About Individuality

Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective

You're not shy. You just like who you like.

Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.

That's my little secret, Christina," he says. "I am always painting myself.

He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.

Who are you, Christina Olson? he asked me once. Nobody had ever asked me that. I had to think about it for a while.

she knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.

It's brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day.

I am the only one of my siblings with red hair. When I asked my da where I got it, he joked that there must've been rust in the pipes. His own hair was dark—"cured," he said, through years of toil—but when he was young it was more like auburn. Nothing like yours, he said. Your hair is as vivid as a Kinvara sunset, autumn leaves, the Koi goldfish in the window of that hotel in Galway. Mr. Grote doesn't

She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.

perpetually positioning our "self" in relationship to other "selves"—

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

But being a boy is not a social disease.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Tell Papa I'm a communist, but a bad communist. I use a lipstick made by a Russian noble, Prince Matchabelli. (It sounds Italian though.).

I'm an old woman, your mother's an old woman, so I'll be an old woman, and I'll do what I please.

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

La récupération d'une image positive de nous ne passe pas seulement ni principalement par la récupération d'une image positive de nos fonctions "procréatives". Elle passe aussi et surtout par la capacité de nous définir autrement que par ces fonctions : par la récupération, comme spécifiques des femmes - c'est-à-dire partie aussi intégrante et définissante de nous-mêmes - de nos organes et fonctions non-procréatives.

Njëshi nuk është i barabartë me një, kur na duhet të sillemi në një mënyrë të caktuar.

Look for someone who matches your soul (not who completes it): someone who flows through life like you do; someone who shares your interests, values, outlook, routine, and so on."…."No one else completes you. Period. People come in and out of our lives to share them with us, contribute, support us, and teach us, but they never complete us.

Mine was a single, highly individual case and the doctors had proceeded along the lines they felt would be most beneficial to me alone, with my full knowledge, approval, and consent. Beyond that, I had no advice for anyone...help for others could only come from the acceptance and enlightenment of the public and the medical profession.