Quotes About Individuality

I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good!

So, what's your type? Gonzo asks a few minutes later. ... Staci Johnson. Dude, I feel like I need to shave my insides when you say that.

The most important quality in a friend is to be yourself. Unless you're not a very nice person. Then you should try to be somebody else.

I'm not really sure what I am at all anymore. We're not just sashes and states, Nicole said on a sigh. Or gender, Petra murmured. Or bodies. I'm sort of everything all at once, Nicole whispered. And then they were silent, lost to dreaming.

Octavia might've believed that it was the Devil's business, not the Lord's, but it seemed to Memphis that if there was a God, it would be downright cruel of him to bestow people with certain talents and then expect them not to use those talents. People had to be who they were.

Just as I'm certain Sam is still short. That part didn't require code. Take that, Sam.

En opinión de Evie había pocas cosas peores que ser normal. Lo normal era para los paletos. Ella quería ser especial. Una estrella brillante.

Modelo? ¿Actriz? ¿Princesa? Es demasiado hermosa para ser alguien corriente.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

The dance of life should be created from moment to moment with individuality and spontaneity.

Apple barn's better'n a pig barn," they chortled over coffee mugs in the cafés. After four years they had become accustomed to the sight of Mr. Q's oversize moustache with its melancholy droop. They no longer questioned the unorthodox W in the spelling of Qwilleran. And most of them now accepted the fact that the middle-aged divorced bachelor chose to live alone—with two cats!

A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength and health that permitted her it know her own mind and to be true to her conception of herself.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

Kamu harus menjadi pribadi yang kamu inginkan, bukan pribadi yang diinginkan orang lain.

I did not want to be recognized as "Anne Sexton's daughter," and I was running from that label as hard as I could.

She had always enjoyed her sense of being alone, envisioning herself as a ball that rolled through life, bumping into other lives but not stopping.

I won't be talked around as if I'm invisible. This is my house, and let me remind all of you that I'm well over twenty-one. I'll go where I want, when I want. Let them make of that what they would! She hadn't lived with Aunt Ardith for nothing; Aunt Ardith would have died, just on principle, before she would have let a man tell her what to do.

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

Slavegirls' brats, sir, are not heralded by proud fathers in the 'Daily Gazette.' The fact that I exist is marked only by my standing here before you, blood and bone decked out in a new dress. The modern philosophers may grant me a soul, but nobody – lord, nobody – burdens me with a fate to be foreseen!

Life would be only what they chose to make it, grappling within the straitjacket of society

Her name was Cassiana Clara.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.