Quotes About Individuality

Finding your voice is like finding your self.

In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone.

Women Rule," that's the way I see it. "Beside every great man there is a powerful woman. The same does not hold true for every successful woman. A lot of us are single because men want to wear the pants, even if they didn't buy them.

Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.

What I have in mind is the ability to be effective, to make a difference in the world, and the right to be taken seriously, together as much as individually. It is power in that sense that many women feel they don't have – and that they want.

defend women's right to be wrong, at least occasionally.

Worth remembering that: forget what you want to do, find something you do better than anyone else, even if it's only turd-throwing, and become undisputed champion: better a champion shit-shoveller than a forty-second-rate turnip-carver . . . Where

To make big money in the investment world you have to learn to think independently; to think independently you need to be comfortable standing alone.

They were of the same blood, the same family, the same world, and yet, they were so different. And yet, they were sisters. And best friends.

Maybe Jenny and Grace weren't so different from the butterfly… maybe they both needed to simply be who they were, stop trying to wish themselves into something else, someone else… or their color would get rubbed off… by unmet expectations, friends, family… even themselves. Maybe it was time to learn to accept who they were… time to learn to protect their color.

Why do some women feel their only value is in their body? Why do they continue to stuff their shapes into too-tight dresses, their feet into stilettos, their brains into closed vaults that can't breathe and subsequently suffocate? Why do they tuck and nip and smooth when the ultimate beauty isn't on the surface at all? And why do they not see this?

If I was not really at home with everyone, neither was I a stranger to anyone, and if all my acquaintances were slightly skewed, well then, so was I.

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

In love, the feeling of owning your partner seems natural, but it is not. Every man is free, even in love.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.