Quotes About Self-expression

I defend Not my voice, but my silence

She did horror stories on herself, filling in blanks where I refused to supply information. This meant she wrote the entire script herself.

I am stubbornly proud of my sexuality. To anyone who has looked down on me from a moral high ground , I say, "I am not a lady. Never have been, don't care to be." I have flirted unabashedly. I've been hungry and demanding; I've told more than a few lovers how to pleasure me in no uncertain terms.

What chutzpah, to write my life story at forty! Or a bad omen. Perhaps, having written it down, I now feel the life is done. Dora would have made me snap out of it. There are some people just the thought of whom makes us behave better. [Toller]

Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete: Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.

I am not the property of the people who bred me. I am not the prisoner of the people with fancy psychiatric lingo in their heads and no love for me in their hearts.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can't really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

Don't absorb so much of what is human that you forget who you are. But if you must, do it for your own sake rather than for the benefit of the rest of us.

Simon looked at his hands, which had grown furry. He snarled when he couldn't get them back to looking human, a sign that he was too agitated to wear this skin. Since he didn't want to scare off Heather, he did the sensible thing. He stripped off his clothes, shifted to Wolf, and went to the Liaison's Office to have a few minutes of playtime with Meg.

I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are.

Where we can open up new opportunities for women's self-expression, enjoyment, and achievement we should do it because it is morally right. But that is very different from saying that gender has no biological basis and that the nature of men and women is wholly constructed by society. The problem with such a position is that it fails to address the issue of why sex differences take the particular form that they do.

I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

Who does not end up a female impersonator?

Elektra: I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

I had to live my life as I saw it.

As they say in the movies, I got here the hard way, with no education and no dough, and whatever I am I am because I wrote it.

I don't know if I can go on spilling myself out to people—those strange strangers.

Say, I am the air I break; or say, I am a spool unwinding.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk with self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

That was before Iris understood that there is a difference between the things you have in your head and the things you present to the world—that sometimes you have to fit yourself into certain shapes, ones other people can easily name.