Quotes About Individuality

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Books allow readers to determine what they wish. People often aren't quite as forgiving if you don't read or see exactly what they wish you to.

be you and not someone else

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckle; the rest is subject to change without notice.

I had to live my life as I saw it.

What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it — like a secret vice.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.

I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.

Names are like codes, yes? Like magic codes. They have everything that ever happened to you squeezed tightly inside them.

Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'--and my solutions may not be yours.

It's that nobody has ever been able to convince me that anything sexual between consenting individuals is wrong. I mean it's like part of my brain is missing. Nothing disgusts me. It all seems innocent, to do with profound sensations, and when people tell me they are offended by things, I just don't know what they mean.

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

But if one is going to create characters, I suggest that one is well-advised not to attach to them the names of real persons, living or dead.

A woman like that is not a woman, quite.I have been her kind.

Don't worry if they say you're crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

From "Her Kind" I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods; fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves: whining, rearranging the disaligned. A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself... ("You, Doctor Martin")

The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of assuming our identities somehow.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid. As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Today, my small child, Joyce, love your self's self where it lives.