Quotes About Self-expression

I was the authority on me.

Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? Goth doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.

S'infilò un vestito da tennis, lungo fino al ginocchio che si era cucita da sola accorciando l'orlo sfilacciato di un vecchio abito di sua madre. Non sarebbe andata a giocare a tennis, ma a ballare e il suo obiettivo era di sembrare americana. Si mise il rossetto e la cipria e si pettinò i capelli sciolti, sfidando la preferenza governativa per le trecce.

I'd think, That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. It don't seem like I ever have been me.

He hadn't let what he looked like run his life one way or the other, any more than he'd let the Combine mill him into fitting where they wanted him to fit.

And crying doesn't always mean need

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

Be yourself and become wealthy!

When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart.

With craziness of mind, I have courage to live as I wish.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.