Quotes About Self-expression

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

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

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

For someone who is invisible, why am I the only one in this family who can't seem to master the art of disappearing?

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entfliehn. Leg dich in deine Hände.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

I tried once, you know, went to a dance all dressed up, but I felt like such a fool. Everyone kept making encouraging remarks about my looks as if they were afraid I'd cross back over the line again; I was trying , you know, I was proving their way of life was right, and they were terrified I'd stop.

There are few women who go around actually feeling: Oh, what a fascinating feminine mystery I am.

I'd decided to start campaigning for a woman's right to marry her vibrator.

There is no "underground" community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it's just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards.

People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said. She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.

Nothing had changed about her except that she was wearing two feathers in her hair instead of one.

How will your experience pave the way for a new voice in America? I hope it will take you out these doors, out into the open air. You will breathe it in your lungs and say, "From now on, this life will be what I stand for . . . Move over–this is my story now."

I think that everyone should have at least a part of them that's self-invented; in fact, the world would be much more interesting if we all created our own identities afresh whenever we felt like it. Otherwise you're just walking around regurgitating what's expected, which is like, why bother?

Las chicas deberían ser sólo quienes son, sabes. ¿Es demasiado pedir?

People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.

And now I enjoy the fact that I have this alter blog persona that nobody in my life know about. I have a secret. I am somebody important. I have the paychecks to prove it. The fact that nobody knows about it makes me feel even more important.

They want to share something extraordinary about themselves, because you've experienced something extraordinary.

Sylvie steered away from labels. She wanted to be true to herself with every word she uttered, every action she took, and every belief she held.

class. Most people can't see that distinction, so they just do as they're told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that's the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn't have to be that way.

I am the head cookie bitch and this is my party.

I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.