Quotes About Individuality

Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.

I've got selfish in my old age. I live as I like.

I myself am more divine than any I see.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Where I make an impression it must be by being most myself.

beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...

Vous ne pouvez pas le croire, vous les hommes, mais la seule raison pour laquelle les femmes assument ce qui vous convient le plus, c'est que vous les empêchez de découvrir ce qui leur convient à elles. Si elles avaient la liberté, si elles avaient la sagesse de pleinement développer leur force et leur beauté de femmes, elles ne souhaiteraient jamais être des hommes ou semblables à des hommes.

Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

It would be nice if we were different people but we are not different people. We are ourselves and we are sure as hell not going to undergo some total transformation at this point.

Because they don't know [the anger is] there inside them. [...] They think they are sweet reasonableness, and it's you that's in the wrong, just by being, and not being like them, or looking like them, or wanting their kind of life.

Yet sometimes Renaissance Souls don't feel so lucky. Despite a long and proud history of Renaissance Souls who've negotiated treaties, invented revolutionary machines, written great novels, and led victorious armies, our culture often insists that we are defective.

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

I tatuaggi sono segni nuovi scelti da te. Metti qualcosa tra la tua pelle e il destino. Un sorso di coraggio.

Remember that sometimes it's when we're simply being ourselves that we make a difference.

The mind is not sex-typed.

The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices." Margaret Mead (this may not be her exact wording, but it's close enough).

I'm unique just like everyone else

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

CHAPTER 7 The Fourth Subphase: Consolidation of Individuality and the Beginnings of Emotional Object Constancy FROM the point of view of the separation-individuation process, the main task of the fourth subphase is twofold: (1) the achievement of a definite, in certain aspects lifelong, individuality, and (2) the attainment of a certain degree of object constancy.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already