Quotes About Individuality

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

we all just figure this out as we go along. There's no textbook, there's no rules, there's no right way to love her. You just feel what you feel, you just love her the only way you know how.

Readers are sexy.

You get born as a boy and then you just end up messing everything just to be a girl. In the end, nobody supports you and you die as a miserable no one. End of story."

Let's just call it like it is, no need to pretty it up. I care what other people think of me. I'm not Jesus Christ. I'm just a girl in the world.

I cared what everybody thought more than what I thought. Or more than my heart thought. And that makes me an idiot.

There were babies, and toddlers, and five-year-old boys in Batman shirts. There was even a little girl dressed as Elsa. For no reason. It's not Halloween. But go ahead, cutie pie, you dress up as Elsa all you want. You do you .

I wonder if this is specific to me, or if everyone feels this way at a certain point. Are we all just sitting around pretending to be normal? Pretending not to go through a thousand different emotions in the span of half an hour? I really can't be the only one feeling this way. I mean, I doubt I can be. I hope I can't be.

Die meisten Menschen sind es ja nicht gewöhnt, sich wirklich selber ein Urteil zu bilden; es reicht ihnen vollkommen, wenn sie das von sich glauben können, während sie in Wirklichkeit Gedanken nachplappern, die sie irgendwo aufgeschnappt haben.

It seems to me, dear sister, that you still think the important thing is to become like everybody else. In reality, the important thing is to become different from the others, to discover your uniqueness. You're a rebel by birth, but that doesn't mean much. Your own rebellion is still ahead of you.

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

Andrew Burstein

I am more than my scars.

Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?

It's our scars that make us who we are.

Ja sam više od svojih ožiljaka.

He was a monk in an order of one.

I nodded—I liked Tom of Finland, but I'd never thought of his work as utopian, as being part of any utopia I'd wanted to live in, though our differences were plotted so far apart on the timeline that bound us that I conceded that post-Stonewall, post-AIDS-crisis, my position was rather cushy and I could do whatever I wanted and no one cared, it was already on tv and the internet anyway.

Yet the system prevailed, in all but details. One could conform, rebel, or withdraw – and Alan withdrew.

The point lay not in this or that label, but in the fact that this generation were going to think for themselves, take a wider view of the world than their parents had done, and not be frightened by bogey words.

We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.

That must be love! Or is it what Dr. Rose Franzblau says in the Post? The mutual support of two mature people involved in separate quests for self-realization.