Quotes About Self-expression

mi cuerpo es un templo y no cualquier chico tiene derecho a rendir culto en él. no iré más allá donde yo quiera.

It's about time you did your own thing and stopped just listening to whatever Queen Margot says.

After all, why should a woman have to change her name for a man?

There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage. I'm looking at my closet now and everything looks like garbage.

Warning, When I'm An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple!

You can call me Alexia. I like it when you say it.

Do not blame my tone of voice, my lack of patience, or my bad mood on PMS. It's not my period that's my problem.

Your penis will not shrivel up and die if you admit you want an umbrella instead of standing in the rain acting like a little water never hurt anyone. It's an unbrella, not a purse.

The wife has begun planning a secret life. In it, she is an art monster. She puts on yoga pants and says she is going to yoga, then pulls off onto a country lane and writes in tiny cramped writing on a grocery list She thinks she should go off her meds maybe so as to write more fluidly. Possibly this is not a good idea. But only possibly.

We used to call her Little, Little come here, we'd say. Little, unhand the cat, but then one day she won't let us, "I am big," she says and her face is stormy.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Do we throw off the false 'cloak' at a party, or do we merely put on an untruthful yellow dress?

Playing video games and making comics didn't look like raw materials for success. In fact, what we were doing looked very similar to fucking around.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

in the future, you might not want to wear so much makeup. You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention." Maureen's shoulders tightened. "Why don't you tell them to stop looking instead of us to stop shining?

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

Young women should pave their own path. I find it quite confining to live up to anybody else's expectations of who you should be.

I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.