Quotes About Individuality

Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to "humbleness." But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

The God of Christianity does not erase our individual identity but actually affirms it, calling us to become ever more fully the unique individuals we were created to be. Contrary to Eastern mysticism, the goal is not to suppress our desires, but to direct our desires to what truly satisfies—to a passionate love relationship with the ultimate Person.

Choosing a religion, says philosopher Ernest Gellner, has become akin to choosing a wallpaper pattern or menu item—an area of life where it is considered acceptable to act on purely personal taste or feelings. Most

Why is it considered acceptable to carve up a person's body to match their inner sense of self but bigoted to help them change their sense of self to match their body?

If you have sensory issues yourself, keep in mind that sensory problems manifest differently in every person, and they can even differ from day to day.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

Modern woman have discovered that living through another's reflection is simply not human enough.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.

the greatest harm I could possibly suffer would be to lose my liberty, to be forced into a conventional life of domestic duties and matrimony.

If any decent woman's calling consisted of taking her proper place in society (husband and house, plus voice lessons and a piano in the drawing-room), then this particular woman-to-be prefers to remain indecent.

To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.

It was odd how often this happened, Ginger and Mimi retaining different slivers of family memory. It was almost as if the recollections had been split down the middle and doled out: you get this, I get that, so no one would be privy to it all.

She loved them both, of course, but they weren't nearly as interesting as any one thing she might be doing on any day. Her life was the song. Her parents were background music.

Perhaps every family is odd.

Are there any "ordinary" women? I don't think so.

Where's your self-respect? Why don't you get yourself in control? Life cannot hang on the love of one other person; you have got to hang your life on yourself.

Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.

Perhaps every family is odd." "You can't build a straight house out of crooked wood, but you can build a very cozy crooked house

suburb of Dallas. They felt the same according to the enthusiastic applause that greeted her. "I believe in the right of every woman to look her best." While Toni paused to sip water, another tsunami

Teddy Lamont couldn't be more gay if he turned up wearing rainbows and carrying a pride flag.

sex, cross-dressing

I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be... this person who's not... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not... Autistic.

Mothers must do all they can to nurture security and acceptance and never compare one sister to another. Each daughter will have special gifts and special needs. It is mother's job to help identify these gifts and encourage the exercise of them.