Quotes About Self-expression

I actually think I think better in high heels.

I'm not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It's just not me - high heels and designer dresses - and I can't seem to get used to it.

If you can fight in high heels, you can walk in high heels.

I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

With make-up, I much prefer my natural face. I'm confident with myself like that, but when I wear make-up, I like to look like myself. I love dewy skin, a matte lip, and a bad highlight!

Always highlight the eyes with kajal. Brush your hair neatly and never step out of home without a touch of lipstick.

I've never had a highly developed sense of being female. The sexuality has either been stopped, or else it's been an exaggerated P J Harvey kind of sexuality.

When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

I make no apology about being a hillbilly.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

When I started doing Hindi films, I did not know much about fashion. I got to know about it when people criticised my fashion sense.

he was always too much of a man to want to look like a man by imitating men. That is unmanly. A boy who wants to look like a man is not a manly boy, and men do not care for his company. A true boy is always welcome to a true man, but a would-be man is better on the other side of the wall.

In a word, why were they not men at worst, when at best they ought to be more of men than other men?--And here lay the difficulty: by no effort could I get the face before me to fit into the clerical mould which I had all ready in my own mind for it.

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

Il comandamento dei dispotismi di una volta era: Tu non devi!. Il comandamento dei totalitari era: Tu devi!. Il nostro è: Tu sei!.

Kuid on ka andekate, isemeelsete inimeste vähemus, kelle määranguks on omaenda elu lõpuni elada, ja kirjanikud kuuluvad sellesse klassi.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl. That skirt-bound race perpetually moving about serving tea had nothing to do with me.

Randall Jarrell said about stories holds true for the writers of stories: they "don't want to know, don't want to care, they just want to do as they please.

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl.

The only way you're gonna be happy is to do the thing that only you can do--or at least try to.

I do not like your name, sir," she answered. "There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.