Quotes About Individuality

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

I don't really plan to be a pop star I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

She wonders sometimes if it's a sort of flaw or lack in her - the inability to lose herself in someone else. . . . she's never quite understood how people could trade in quiet spaces and solitary gardens and courtyards, thoughtful walks and the delicious rhythms of work, for the fearful tumult of falling in love.

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.

Georgia tutted under her breath. 'I'm loud sometimes,' she said, thinking So bloody what if I'm quiet - what's the thing about it?

sameness, not difference, provokes our greatest anxiety

In the search for equality women lost their own identity and their identity in Christ. We were never meant to be equal. We were meant to be unique.

Just because your friend does it, doesn't mean you have to. Be a leader, not a follower.

We can only be responsible for what we ourselves do.

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me.

If you can stand on your own, it's better that you walk back rather than making someone from the fleet take you." Elliot rose, then swallowed the bile she tasted in her throat. "I have stood on my own for many years." He didn't look away this time, and his eyes were like a stranger's. "You're not the only one.

You should know you're exactly the person you think you are.

She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.

Day by day, the superficial mask she'd donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn't help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

She was nothing like me; she was everything like me. How was that even possible?

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

I can be a better me than anyone can; I am me. Good or bad. I am myself. I'm no carbon copy of no one else.

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.