Quotes About Individuality

You're an idiot, Goon, you know that?" Paul Wattenburg said to him one morning. "No, as a matter of fact I didn't," Goon said, then laughed. He called himself Goon too. On the first day of school, his math teacher, Miss Langley, asked him his name and he said, "Goon." "I beg your pardon," said Miss Langley. "See, my name's Gary Boone," Gary

Okay, class, said Mrs Jewls, So that we have no more mix-ups, I want everybody to write his name on his pencil. Dameon spent the rest of the day trying to write his name on his pencil. Dameon's pencil couldn't write on itself. It was just like his beautiful hazel eyes with the black dots in the middle. They could see everything except themselves.

Myron had named him "Oddly." Myron had named him oddly. "Is

Suck your toes. That's what I do," said Sharie. But Leslie's foot wouldn't reach her mouth. "Well, that's all toes are good for," said Sharie. She put her foot in her mouth and went to sleep. "No," thought Leslie. "They must be good for something.

I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as China Aster! It's bad enough being a girl, anyway, when I like boy's games and work and manners!

You should remember that you're a young lady. I'm not! And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty!

I hate ordinary people!

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment, said Tempest with a bitter smile. Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way.

Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean their unimportant

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them.

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them.