Quotes About Individuality

Find your place, and let the world gravitate to you. None of this mix-and-mingle business.

It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

Too much good taste can be boring

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

Pale pink salmon is the only color I cannot abide––although, naturally, I adore pink. I love the pale Persion pinks of the little carnations of Provence and Schiaparelli's pink, the pink of the Incas…And though it's so vieux jeu I can hardly bear to repeat it––pink is the navy blue of India.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

A new dress doesn't get you anywhere. It's the life you're living in the dress.

We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

Too much good taste can be very boring.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

She lives always dressed as a woman and she whores as a woman. I would never think she was a man. I can't really see the man in her. Most of the time I absolutely know but she has none of the qualities of female impersonators that I can recognize. have gone into restaurants with her and every man in the place has turned around to look at her and made all kinds of hoots and whistles. And it was her, it wasn't me.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize. — Diane Arbus, Revelations (Random House, 2003)

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.

You're a jumper. He's a thinker.

People…ladies, I mean…they dye their hair sometimes," I explained to him. "So one day they have red hair and another day they have brown hair. It doesn't matter," I said. "They're still the same lady.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you," she said. "Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world. give me a choice between breeding, accelerated aging, living with an orangutan, and maid duty for life...or, autonomy, black boots, multiple orgasms, cats instead of kids, people who say what they mean, and nothing stopping me from doing whatever i wanna do...and guess which one i pick?

So, what is beauty if it isn't Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon? Why do we try to pin it down by categorizing it as absolute? Why limit it at all? Why is classic beauty the gold standard? Why is gold the gold standard? And what is "classic"? What's precious about precious stones? Why are diamonds a girl's best friend? Don't tell me what beauty is before I know it for myself.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.