Quotes About Individuality

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain? Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else's.

A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and

Anger surged inside her, and Bethie tried to push it aside. I could have this, if I wanted it, she told herself. She could starve herself thin again, cut her hair, find a guy, buy a little house in a neighborhood full of identical little houses. She could have everything Barbara had, everything her sister had, only she didn't want it, not any of it.

A body was just a body, just a vessel for her soul, and she was under no obligation to keep her body looking any certain way...

A writer wasn't a body, just a byline. My words would be sharp and spiky, punchy and pointed; my stories would be swift and lean, sleek and enviable, moving fast and hitting hard. I would not, I vowed, write like a fat girl.

I'm probably mangling this quote from Oscar Wilde, who said he saved his truest genius for his life—that his life was his real work of art. That was Drue. She had a genius for living.

Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner

She is fifteen years old that summer, a thoughtful, book-struck girl with long-lashed hazel eyes and a long-legged body that still doesn't completely feel like her own.

And she's got blue hair, and old-lady clothes. It's fine. She's one hundred percent herself. And she wouldn't be that strong, she wouldn't have the courage of her convictions, if she didn't have a mom like you.

nodded. I did know. Once I'd started searching out clothes that fit and looked good on the body I had instead of the one that I wanted, I had discovered exactly the feeling Leela Thakoon was talking about.

So, Nora leaves him in the end, she said, as they walked down the stairs. What? In the play. A Doll's House . That's right. Beatrice went to the sink. She says she can't be anyone's wife or anyone's mother until she knows who she is. She walks out of their house and closes the door behind. It's this iconic moment. At least, that's what our teacher said. That's very interesting.

Of what are you thinking now? she asked. I am thinking of myself. That's just what I am doing. Are you also thinking of yourself? No, of yourself—of you, Mogens.

If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your car, (about the BMW X3).

in fact, as a woman, I have no country

As the United States continues its quest to provide health care to more people in more affordable ways, there will be temptations to mandate treatments that are shown to be grossly equivalent, but less expensive. It will be important to maintain flexibility in such a system, so that we do not denigrate the art of medicine, which allows individuality in the sacred relationship between doctor and patient.

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Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...

And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. 

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.