Quotes About Individuality

Az életek is úgy repednek meg, ahogy a jég. Személyiségek. Egyéniségek.

As mulheres sabem o que significa ter um corpo. Compreendem suas dificuldades e fragilidades, suas glórias e seus prazeres. Os homens tratam o corpo como coisa só sua. Cuidam dele privadamente, mesmo quando estão em público.

Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else's success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own.

And of course there was the sheer physical fact of her, the blood-tinged blade that she was, the riot of color that caught everyone's attention.

I've lived more than half my life as a male, and by now everything comes naturally. When Calliope surfaces, she does so like a childhood speech impediment. Suddenly there she is again, doing a hair flip, or checking her nails. It's a little like being possessed.

Une femme n'est pas une pastèque dans laquelle on fait un trou pour voir si elles est sucrée.

Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Cecila was weird, but we're not. And then: We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

T]he cascade of discoveries in neuroscience and genetics has created an image of individuals as automata, slaves to their genes or neurotransmitters, with no more free will than a child's windup toy.

When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

So now I'm getting my gown made by an exclusive seamstress, and all thos anorexic whores on Michigan Avenue and Oak Street who made me feel like the Goodyear blimp can kiss the very fattest part of my ass.

Point? Maybe you aren't a Carrie or a Samantha or a Charlotte or a Miranda. Maybe you're just you.

If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I'd totally do me. Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office: A Memoir

Yeah, I'm over forty, flighty, and fluffy- I'd say I'm not ideal bouncer material.

While I'm happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, "Hoo-boy, that's permanent.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.

I decided to bypass parenthood. In the 1970s, only one in ten women was childfree; today the number is one in five.169 Yet when I mention my choice, I've had moms look at me like I'm defective, or a unicorn, or a defective unicorn. Keep your pity; I don't need it. I knew early on that children weren't in my plans.

1970s, only one in ten women was childfree; today the number is one in five.169 Yet when I mention my choice, I've had moms look at me like I'm defective, or a unicorn, or a defective unicorn. Keep your pity; I don't need it.

The shot that won me over completely was of Coco clad in a pleated army-green skirt, with a matching military sweater, a tiny strand of pearls, a beanie, and wild-print knee socks, all by Gucci: it's like my id and my Girl Scout uniform hooked up in a fitting room at Bergdorf's.

It's a process, but take those little steps toward treating yourself fairly, embracing body positivity, and celebrating what is unique and wonderful about you, and I promise you'll feel a break from all the tension.

What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

Imagine what our world would be like if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colors or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.

Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.