Quotes About Self-expression

It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think—to say it in your own words, without compromise.

Research shows that loneliness damages the body in much the same way as aging.1, 2 It sure felt that way. Every day felt like losing a fight. I learned that loneliness isn't fixed by listening to other people talk. You can cure your loneliness only by doing the talking yourself and—most important—being heard.

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins. Shay's eyes flashed. Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say. I'd rather have something to say.

Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies

In the end, you are – what you are. Set your hair in a thousand curlicues Place your feet in yard-high shoes, You'll remain forever, what you are.

Tis order woman seeketh; freedom, man.

Ah!, lo que yo sé puede saberlo cualquiera -mi corazón no es más que mío.

Eres, al fin y al cabo, lo que eres. Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

No fim sereis sempre o que sois. Por mais que os pés sobre altas solas coloqueis, E useis perucas de milhões de anéis, Haveis de ser sempre o que sois.

Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

If you look at practically anyone - I mean, I find this more and more - the more you look at people the more you find that they've actually manufactured themselves. People whose names that you know. I meet lots of people in my ordinary life, away from writing, who seem to be authentic, who seem to know where they've come from and who they are, but anyone that I deal with in, if you like, my profession, we all seem to have made ourselves. I think artists are all self-made.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a line, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You can't draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

A patient can have as many diagnoses as [she] damn well pleases.

In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

And dare love that, and say so too,And forget the He and She.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.