Quotes About Individuality

We all have our own special brand of pain and hurt.

And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me

her friends, feeling the change, soon left off trying to be poor little imitations of grown-up people, and began at last to enjoy themselves; for true enjoyment does not consist in showing off, but in being our simple, natural selves, if people would only believe it.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat.

I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?

Okay, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?

I am happy only in that I am a monster.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.

Fevvers felt that shivering sensation which always visited her when mages, wizards, impresarios came to take away her singularity as though it were their own invention, as though they believed she depended on their imaginations n order to be a woman. She felt herself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea.

For I am not natural, you know - even though, if you cut me, I will bleed.

What I do feel, really, is that I am a lot more ordinary than I thought. This probably only means I've come to terms with being peculiar; possibly, also, the time for existential leaps is over and I am myself, now.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

All we can do is the best we can and let others be who they are.

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Um, am I the only person who is walking around without underwear on today? I know I can't be. This isn't the first time this has happened to me, and I know if it's happened to me more than once, it's happened to someone else at least one time. I'm three quarters short of clean draws.

Now that," said Mrs. Morland, up in arms for seeing things straight, "is just rubbish. There isn't any good or bad taste about what books you read: it's what you like or don't like.

Put his stamp on me?"  Dee frowned.  "It was a kiss, not a stamp.  Jesus, do I have 'Ryder's Property' stamped on my forehead?" "Check your throat.  Apparently he had his tongue down it, so it's probably there.