Quotes About Individuality

Soll ich, weil's Brauch ist, ein Stück Eisen stecken in das nächste Fleisch oder ins übernächste, mich dran zu halten, weil die Welt sich dreht? Herr, brich mir das Genick im Sturz von einer Bierbank.

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.

Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie." ("A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.")

I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.

What does it say about the world we live in, if an adult man is told how and whom he should love?

I live inside my head," he told himself. "So does everyone in a way. So what goes on in there, must count. It must count a lot. I shall always live in my head, wherever I go or whatever I do for the whole of my life. So why shouldn't I be at home in there?

People who generalise about people are dismissed as superficial. It's only when you've known large numbers of people that you can spot the unusual ones—when you look at each one as if you'd never seen one before, they all look alike.

Well, I don't see any other ones around...

Sugar, nobody's perfect. And when ladies try to be perfect, their periods stop.

Just because you can fit into something tight doesn't mean that you belong in it.

I want a book genre called "It's not chick lit. It's lit, bitch!

I wore all black because I myself am a pop of color.

At casinos, I see senior citizens grazing on slot machines clad in a trend that I call toddling. Toddling is dressing like a toddler: clamdiggers and a cotton top, no belt, mall-walking sneakers. It's a look that says, I give up. Or, I don't give a damn what anybody thinks of me anymore. I'm not sure which.

All my life, I'd thought of having kids with the seriousness that I'd thought of taking a ceramics class. When I finally took one and came home with three beautifully glazed but warped bowls, my husband said: "You're not going to turn into a lady who makes pots, are you?" I was not. I kept the bowls and display them proudly—one holds fruit, one batteries, one loose change—but I had no interest in making anything else.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

I am large, I contain multitudes. —WALT WHITMAN

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

We were opposites in every way until we grew up, left home, and discovered we were more alike than we'd thought. Sisters only get to be opposites within the family; separated by the world, they become practically identical.

to "have ideas" (tener ideas), thinking for oneself being considered doubly reprehensible in women.

those with the habit of line-crossing as a mode of being would never and could never fit the requirements of any state narrative.

many saw their antifascism as a more important mark of personal identity than their Jewishness

If you can forget the stultifying concept that there are appropriate years for certain endeavors (like getting married) and appropriate days for being gay and merry (like Saturday nights) and use these times without embarrassment or self-pity to do something creative and constructive, I believe half your single girl battle is over.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.