Quotes About Individuality

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

I went out to lunch today and ordered a Dr. Pepper. The waitress said, "We don't have Dr. Pepper; we have Mr. Pibb. It's the same thing." It's not the same thing at all. Dr. Pepper went to school an extra four years. He's much more qualified to be a soft drink. We don't even know if Mr. Pibb has a G.E.D.

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

It was true: I was starting to hate girls. Not that I was into the machismo of being a "manly-man." It was just that, for boys, there seemed to be more options available: there were more ways to be a boy and still be accepted, whereas the popular girls all appeared to be cut from the same cloth. Or they were clones or something.

I think we are going to have to love ourselves. Fuck.

It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.

In becoming someone's anyone, I became no one's only one.

While I may hate that I was once fat, I am absolutely thankful that I grew up relying on something other than beauty.

Learn how to be your own heroine, so you too can find your own hero." Right, because why would you want to spend time learning how to be your own heroine if not for the sole purpose of ensnaring a hero?

I think, therefore I'm single.

Every spiritual path leads the sincere seeker to the truth that can only be found within. The Sufi says that there are as many roads to God as there are human beings, "as many as the breaths of the children of men." Because we are each individual and unique, the journey of discovering our real nature will be different for each of us. At the same time different spiritual paths are suited to different types of people.

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

Her voice was unusually deep toned for a girl, he thought. Girls were always screaming what they had to say. Her throaty voice made you feel you had known her a long time.

I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that—they pour into whatever space we have made ready for them to fill.

What do you believe is worse? Living life alone, lacking in popularity or changing yourself to be accepted by others? I think the latter is worse, and I believe it is much more important to think for yourself than to allow others to control you with their opinions. I think it's a sign of weakness to allow others to think for you just to be accepted.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.