Quotes About Self-expression

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

Fakat kimseyi incitmediÄŸimiz sürece, istediÄŸiniz zaman aptalca davranam?yorsan?z özgür ve yaÅŸl? bir han?m olman?n ne anlam? var?

Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that.

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end.

I don't know how to be me and how to be sexual at the same time.

And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that.

Ah, did he not hate that word 'gay'? He thought it a strange categoriser of a life style with many elements far from zippy. No, he would de-kike the word 'faggot', which had punch, bite, a non-nonsense, chin-out assertiveness, and which, at present, was no more self-deprecatory than, say, 'American'.

problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life

Meus problemas começavam quando eu tentava me encaixar na vida de outra pessoa, ainda mais quando isso significava desistir de uma parte de mim no processo.

I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process.

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder mostrarle al mundo su vientre germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad. Las semillas no tenían este tipo de problemas, sobre todo, no tenían madre a la que temer, ni miedo a que las enjuiciaran.

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder demostrarle al mundo su viente germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad

Porque no quiero». Tita con estas tres palabras había dado el primer paso hacia la libertad. Mientras

Lupita thought that people who didn't dance were selfish and lonely.

Porque no quiero." Tita con estas tres palabras había dado el primer paso hacia la libertad.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.

People say I'm a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box.

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was. I

Thanks, but I don't drink, she said as she ignored his arm and breezed past him. I'm just here to get laid.

And of course, she wore high-waisted bike shorts, a too-cropped-for-her-age tank

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

We should teach our girls that snapping is ok, instead of waiting for someone else to break them.

I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating icecream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl...