Quotes About Individuality

Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere—of these things he was certain. Beside her the two dozen schoolgirls and débutantes, young married women and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, in the word's most contemptuous sense, breeders and bearers, exuding still that faintly odorous atmosphere of the cave and the nursery.

There's a difference somewhere." Being a supreme egotist Ardita frequently

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

She did not want him to be like other men, yet here were the same exigent demands, as if he wanted to take some of herself away carry it off in his pocket.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Tell me about it. Tell me about your private life, Baby, and your opinions. You never do - we always talk about Nicole.

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world - they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.

It was themselves he gave back to them, blurred by the compromises of how many years.

One of the pilots asked Mr. Smith if he liked his business, and Mr. Smith said, Sure. Sure I like it. It's nice being the only sound nut in a hatful of cracked ones. ---Stewardess to Cecelia Brady

Every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbor's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

We all have souls of different ages.

No te pasa que siempre piensas o esperas que seamos una sola persona, y luego te encuentras con que seguimos siendo dos?

and beware of trying to classify people too   definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth   they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class, and   by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are   merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at   you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with   the world. 

AMORY WRITES A POEM

unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.

Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If

You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.

Physical difference frightens people in our culture more than anything else. You can be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically - put a bone in your nose - and boy, you're in trouble!

You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.

Later on, still looking, she had tried to get involved with the Women's Community Center. She liked what they stood for but secretly wished they would wear just a little lipstick and shave their legs. She had been the only one in the room in full makeup, wearing pantyhose and earrings. She had wanted to belong, but when the woman suggested that next week they bring a mirror so they could all study their vaginas, she never went back.

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the parishioners who had come to the church, Ida said she wanted to be God, because she was the only one who knew how to do it. Of

On ne peut reprocher à quelqu'un d'être ce qu'il est.