Quotes About Self-expression

Uno no toma prestado el código del vecino.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

Women are crazy." Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.

I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I cant help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch.

A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente piace parlare, e io non sono mai stato un gran chiacchierone. Porto avanti un monologo interiore, ma spesso le parole non arrivano alle labbra. Com'è carina lei oggi, posso pensare, ma per qualche motivo non lo dico ad alta voce. Mia madre parlava, mia sorella parla. Crescendo, mi sono abituato ad ascoltare. Dunque starmene seduto sul divano da solo, in silenzio, mi pareva un lusso.

It was commonly known that Annabelle absolutely hated her husband's last name—she even crumpled up her nose when she said it. It never occurred to her that she didn't have to take it.

It feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.

De la misma manera que algunas mujeres cambian de aspecto regularmente, yo cambio de personalidad. ¿Qué personaje me sienta bien, cuál es el más deseado, cuál se pone de moda? Creo que la mayor parte de las personas hace lo mismo, simplemente no lo reconocen o en su defecto se afianzan en un solo personaje porque son demasiado perezosas o estúpidas para hacer el cambio.

We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, 'I can do that and I should be allowed to do that'.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

Carl Jung's admonition: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

You can only ever be yourself. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

It was as if all of those hundreds of people were costumed for home, for themselves, not for the public promenades.

The stillness was so complete that I could hear myself swallowing. They wanted me to give them something, and they expected it to be good.

at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.