Quotes About Self-expression

Woolf penned roughly 535 words and crossed out 73 of them, netting her 462 words for her day's work. Let's say she worked for three hours. That's about 178 words an hour including the words she deleted—and Woolf was writing at the height of her creative powers.

But I'm so tired, Winsome said, of Meeting other people. I want other people to meet me.

Use your imagination, I tell my students these days, or someone else is going to use it for you.

Soy mujer y escribo. Soy plebeya y sé leer. Nací sierva y soy libre.

Las chicas de hoy tienen una Lady Gaga, que se viste de hombre, de mujer o de filete de ternera, según le viene en gana.

La escritura es un esqueleto exógeno que te permite continuar en pie ortopédicamente cuando sin ello serías una gelatina derrotada, una masa blanda aplastada en el suelo (...).

you can't be anybody but yourself. At the end of the day, you're stuck with that

I get good marks at school, so I am not stupid. If I don't assert myself a bit, nobody else is going to. I have to assert myself by reasoned conversation, not sulks.

No diré con los otros que también me olvidaste. No ingresaré en el coro de los que te desprecian ni seguiré al ejército blasfemo. Si no existes yo te haré a semejanza de mi anhelo, a imagen de mis ansias.

If u cant tell how u feel now and hold on to that than your left not knowing what could have happened. Dont wait and be too late let yourself out now.

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

No, because I am not a ventriloquist.

I don't give a shit about pretty, I informed her. I'm a superhero. Superheroes don't need pretty.

You are who you are, Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

Are you a male or a female or somewhere in between?

You are who you are Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.

Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world – such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

We're not really free unless we can put matters in our own words. And if we can't put them in our own words, we can't talk to other people, because if we speak the words of the internet or the TV news, other people will recognize that, and they are not really in our company, but somewhere else.

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.