Quotes About Individuality

Dellray had advanced degrees—including psychology and philosophy (yes, one could philosophize as a hobby)—but he somehow fell naturally into a street patois of his own making, not gang-talk, not African American Vernacular English. It was, like his clothing and his penchant for reading Heidegger and Kant to his children, pure Dellray.

Everyone should be allowed to follow their own conscience, Wainwright, when it comes to facing a moral dilemma. Bertrand Russell, no doubt, said Wainwright. Jesus Christ, actually, said George

To be allowed to pursue a career of his own choosing, and not just be expected to follow in his father's footsteps.

We worked together, we studied together, we played together, but we slept alone.

an apple is an apple whoever bites it.

But I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey... They are both oaks, even if they were planted in different forests. But then, m'lord, we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

What William wanted was of no importance, and he gradually lost his sense of self. He once described himself as an empty hole inside. If you have no sense of self, you are totally dependent. There is an emptiness inside, and the only way to fill it is to rely on someone else, someone who has a sense of self.

The boundary between who you are and who they are becomes blurred. You might adopt other people's goals and opinions as your own. You might adopt other people's values. You might lose yourself in the other. There is a chance that you might subjugate yourself to a group, particularly a group with a charismatic leader. You might even find some attraction to cult groups.

Adults appreciate differences more. It is only children—or immature adults—who feel that pressure to be exactly the same.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

She wanted out of that decorating scheme.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

I'd never seen a creature with so many freckles before. A Big Bang had occurred, originating at the bridge of her nose, and the force of this explosion had sent galaxies of freckles hurtling and drifting to every end of her curved, warm-blooded universe.

Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.

That was when I realized a shocking thing. I couldn't become a man without becoming The Man. Even if I didn't want to.

Don't you think it would have been easier just to stay the way you were?" I lifted my face and looked into my mother's eyes. And I told her: "This is the way I was."   You

From my birth when they went undetected, to my baptism where they upstaged the priest, to my troubled adolescence when they didn't do much of anything and then did everything at once, my genitals have been the most significant thing that ever happened to me.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and like a misfit at the same time.

Élem a magam életét, nyalogatom a saját sebeimet. Lehet, hogy nem ez a legjobb megoldás, de én ilyen vagyok.

Supimos de esa cárcel que es ser chica, de los impulsos y sueños que genera y por qué acaban sabiendo qué colores combinan y cuáles no.