Quotes About Individuality

mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

We're all in this alone.

After all, in private, we're all misfits

All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific.

To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

So long as man is man, variety will still be the flavor of life.

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

No single group of people can be lumped together and neatly categorized.

Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

When does a woman become an adult? Perhaps it's when she stops comparing her life to other women's.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. – Linda Ellerbee

No One Needs You That Much

Sometimes there is more to a person's need for white picket fences than safety, just as sometimes there is more to a person's rebellion than the need to lash out against rules.

Honey, God made us all with special needs. Some are simply more apparent than others.

Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche or Marian Keyes. You would not display the contents of your knicker and sock drawer, or your bathroom cabinet with its face creams and cough remedies, so why put off potential buyers with your taste in literature?