Quotes About Individuality

Uma mulher não pode existir sozinha, sob o risco de deixar de ser mulher. Ou se converte, para tranquilidade de todos, numa outra coisa: numa louca, numa velha, numa feiticeira. Ou, como diria Silvestre, numa puta. Tudo menos mulher. Foi isto que eu disse a Noci: neste mundo só somos alguém se formos esposa.

Para mí seguía siendo Oceanita, pero para todos los demás no necesitaba ningún nombre. No era más que una esposa, una esposa muy particular. Era la primera dama de una aldea sin damas.

A vida é um colar. Eu dou o fio, as mulheres dão as missangas.

Os mulatos só são pretos quando lhes convém. (...) - Não sou preto! - Então? - Sou extremamente mulato!

Não gosto de pretos, Kindzu. - Como? Então gosta de quem? Dos brancos? - Também não. - Já sei: gosta de indianos, gosta da sua raça. - Não. Eu gosto de homens que não tem raça. É por isso que eu gosto de si, Kindzu.

She told me that after a lifetime "in service"—living in other people's houses, taking care of other people's things, and making no judgments—when the time came for her to buy a couch, or a lamp, or dishes, she discovered that she had no tastes or preferences.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

How can educators start to learn more about the home worlds of their actual students rather than learning generic information about the "groups" from which students come?

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.

treasure your exceptions!. . . Keep them always uncovered and in sight. .

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

Sabrina suggested they burn their orange monkey sweaters and blue heart covered pants but Daphne refused. Granny took Sabrina aside and apologised for the outfit, saying that Mr. Canis might not have been the right choice to shop for girls. After all, he was colour-blind.

Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am, and either I am needed as that or I'm not suitable anyway.

It used to be that people had character; now houses have character and people have personality. That

I do what I want. I'm punk rock.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

I mean the breaking of continuity. When you lose your place in the stream of time, you become a person who is completely dependent on the social.

to hide them. "A man is himself and no other", Josip says. "He is an island in the sea of being. And each island is as no other. The islands are connected because they have come forth from the sea, and the sea flows between them. It separates them yet unites them, if they learn to swim.