Quotes About Self-expression

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

You were born an original, don't die a copy

Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer.

Or a T-shirt that says Cash Me Outside How Bah Dat.

Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins!

I replied, 'I do not think as you do.' 'Child, you are not born to think; you were not made to think.

When it does arrive, I begin without fear; or, at least, I have only a weak trembling, which I should soon lose, if he did not call up one of those frowns which infallibly condemn me to silence and to terror. But I know, and he knows too if he would but own it, that I do think; that I was born to think:—and I will think.

No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody's ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn't already made up my mind to say.

If he wants me to be a Prince, I'm not sure I can prevent it. But I'll be my own sort of Prince. I will.

Sometimes it helps to remind them you're not a drone.

I tried not to feel self-conscious about the sparkles floating under my skin.

If the petty rebellion makes you feel better, Casey, by all means, indulge yourself.

Home-made, home-made! But aren't we all?

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

paraphrashed :People wear what they wear because of what goes on in their heads...it has nothing to do with their size or shape.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel -- as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can -- then I am nothing.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

We do not experience ourselves as a gift until we are engaged in the act of creating.

I'M NEVER BORED ... I've got a clitoris ;-)