Quotes About Self-expression

people have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God." —Sarah Miles

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they'd just walk around naked at all times.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

For me, there is no such thing as "feminist fantasies" or "feminist sex." Women's sexual liberation is not about defining what constitutes politically correct sex; it's about exploring and increasing our erotic joy and pleasure.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity, she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split - conforming outwardly to one reality, while trying to maintain inwardly the value it denies.

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.

rushed upstairs and slipped into new jeans and a hot-pink wool sweater with a white T underneath. Then I went into the bathroom to do my hair. I brushed it vigorously, then parted it down the middle and made two big braids, one on either side of my head. I finished the outfit off with a pretty beaded bracelet featuring every conceivable shade of pink. Perfect.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?