Quotes About Self-expression

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.

My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken

I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life—about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

Be pretty, but not threateningly pretty. Be a go-getter but don't threaten anyone or be a bitch. Caught in this web of contradictions, we have to be everything for everyone and we lose the ability to explore who we really are.

At school, at home, in bars, I was an emotional contortionist, alternating between awkward self-aggrandizing and trying to win favor so as to fit in. When I wrote, I let myself be dead honest, flaws and all. But I was myself, I felt real. I went inside myself when a pen was in my hand and enjoyed that space in there.

Everyone wears a mask. I just chose to create my own.

Suzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women was so right when she said, "There's just nothing better in life than to ride around on the back of a convertible with a crown on your head." Words to live by.

All of a sudden, when I take my hair down, I don't look like a flower child anymore. I look like Loretta Lynn. This is not a good look—for Loretta or me.

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

Find the stories you love, and don't ever let anyone tell you you're wrong for loving them. If

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory." -Commencement Speech

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.