Quotes About Self-expression

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

Maybe I have to think about myself less as a woman with this woman's special task, and more as an individual with her own special task—not put woman before my individuality.

get nostalgic for being a teenager for this reason. It never occurred to me then to be nice to other people. I look back at that time as a time of great freedom—but that was the great freedom, that I didn't give a fuck. I cannot give a fuck more than I already do. I feel it would be the end of me. Having children is nice. What a great victory to be not-nice. The nicest thing to give the world is a child. Do I ever want to be that nice?

The most compelling women are the ones who are distinctive, who are most like themselves and least like other women.

To me it's also talking about how it's okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to have some other identity.

Whenever I try to explain myself, he always says, What's holding you back? I cannot point to anything. What holds me back is my actual freedom - my reluctance before the void. Reluctant to make my own meanings, in case I make them up badly, afraid of being laughed at, a fool, apart.

My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.

My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole

But she'd been wrong about Vig. He wasn't broken. He wasn't destroyed by a cruel society. He was just an introvert with an aversion to shaving. And he liked her. Liked her, liked her.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.

I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

I like what looks good on me and, as a result, I don't find myself drawn to one specific designer all the time.

For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.

It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.

My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?