Quotes About Self-expression

I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.

Although I look like a drag queen's Christmas tree on the outside, I am at heart a simple country woman.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be—because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? —Fanny Brice (1891–1951), singer and comedian

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I am the me I choose to be.

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.