Quotes About Individuality

That in itself didn't bother her, though. If there was one thing she didn't need to do, it was to talk to a man.

I'd rather go outlaw than be a doctor or a lawyer.

Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out.

Tattoos made my skin more 'me.' -Melissa Maxwell

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

Tattoos made my skin more me.

Out of town I could simply be , I could feel my self , firm and calm and unmalleable as I could not when I was in school or in any of the usual human communities that seemed to weaken or scatter me. I could sit for an hour in the rocks above the Knife River, asking for no more discourse than that water's monotonous gabble. I was an inward child, it was true, but beyond that, I felt a contentment outside human society that I couldn't feel within it.

I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.

Champion pussy licker was a hell of a lot more interesting to know than straight or gay.

Miss Josette was an African-American woman, probably in her late seventies, but who could easily pass for early sixties. She had intelligent, almond-shaped eyes, smooth skin the color of rich mahogany

problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life

Meus problemas começavam quando eu tentava me encaixar na vida de outra pessoa, ainda mais quando isso significava desistir de uma parte de mim no processo.

I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process.

She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.

I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process. So I waited until I didn't have to. Until it felt like someone fit effortlessly. Or maybe that's too easy - maybe it's more accurate to say that what was required to be with Owen didn't feel like effort. It felt like details.

I'm happy for you and I'm happy, selfishly, for me. To get to see you so much . . . like yourself with someone.

it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

She wanted to only want for her children what they want for themselves, even if she doesn't agree with it, even if she wouldn't hope for that.

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder demostrarle al mundo su viente germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad

Always performing who they are instead of being it

Anybody knew that no two men were alike. You could measure cloth with a yardstick, or distance by miles, but you could not lump men together and measure them by any rule. Brains and character did not depend on anything but the man himself. Some men did not have the sense at sixty that some had at sixteen.

Laura thought of Ma's saying, It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

The thing people are never indifferent to are differences.

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.