Quotes About Individuality

Find freedom in the context you inherit

Sex with a woman who wants to please a man is nothing compared to sex with a woman who wants to please herself.

They were learning how to perform their privacy.

It's okay, you can do it. Because I am playing with myself as I write this, I hope you're doing the same as you read it. Otherwise there's not much point. Go ahead. Don't be shy or modest, prudish or self-conscious. That's it. It feels nice, doesn't it?

In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more incessantly you pay. If you have become that particular, irreducible person, you get precisely what you want but no more. This is the unforgiving truth.

Julius, who had a sour, bitter nature, became Groucho. (He was also the quartet's treasurer, storing their wages in what vaudeville actors called a "grouch bag.") Adolph, who played the harp, naturally became Harpo. Leonard the pathological womanizer Fisher dubbed Chico, pronounced "Chick-o." Milton, so the story goes, became Gummo because, as a hypochondriac, he put on waterproof sneakers, known as "gumshoes," at the first sign of rain. Their

she had a name made to be embroidered on bowling shirts.

Parades always made me cringe—the sight of so many people lockstepping along, chests out, elbows pumping, seemed to denote an unearned pride or a humiliating need for attention. I have generally found something else to do, if any parades were nearby.

DON'T TOUCH A CLICHÈ WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -Leo Rosten

Everyone, in some small secret sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

I have had many patients who expected themselves to perform in ways which were constitutionally impossible. We were not created equal except for the respect which we may demand for who we are. Sorting the possible from the impossible empowers these people to give their energies to the things they can do, and to leave to others those which they are inherently unprepared.

I have tried in my way to be free.

Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it

we are highly invested in feeling different from one another—and superior—no matter how flimsy the grounds for our sense of superiority, and no matter how self-sabotaging that may end up being. You

Some boys are happier being more feminine than masculine although they still have masculine elements. Some girls are happier being more masculine than feminine although they still have feminine elements. The explosion in the proportion of people who believe that they are trance gender may well represent the failure to understand that gender is two-dimensional not one-dimensional.

The notion of the opposite sex assumes that you are either masculine or feminine. It assumes a one dimensional continuum: feminine - masculine. But researchers have known for more than forty years that that notional is just isn't accurate.

Don't pressure your daughter or your son to conform to gender stereotypes. If your son wants to take ballet classes, cheer him on. If your daughter wants to study marshal arts and computer programming, sign her up. Teach your son that there are all kinds of man in the world including men who excel at ballet and macrame. Teach your daughter that there are all kinds of women in the world, including women who are masters of karate and computer programming.

Gender is important, gender is complicated and gender is meaningful. Know your child and celebrate the kind of girl or boy your child is becoming.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Atunci când o persoan? investeÈ™te inconÈ™tient È™i în mod excesiv energie, timp È™i atenÈ›ie într-o tr?s?tur? de caracter dominant?, acea tr?s?tur? devine centrul personalit??ii ei, iar masca È™i persoana devin una È™i aceeaÈ™i.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.