Quotes About Self-expression

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

When you get dressed up, put on everything you want, just the way you want it. Then take off one thing. (Preferably not the dress.)

It is always best to be an original version of yourself than a cheap, knockoff imitation of somebody else. —Karen Ehman

Her aunt would be appalled at her forwardness. But Penelope had long ago decided that while the meek might inherit the earth, the non-meek enjoys far more interesting conversations— to say the least.

but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.

every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be. But

Whenever one has time to write, edit, and delete, there is room for performance.

Teenagers make it clear that games, worlds, and social networking (on the surface, rather different) have much in common. They all ask you to compose and project an identity.

He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.

We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?

The desire for the edited life crosses generations, but the young consider it their birthright.

Lizzy's inarching to her own drummer

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

Loneliness from time to time was the price of freedom, and freedom wasn't a stars and stripes, Boy Scout idea, it was doing what you damn well wanted to do—all the time.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time; you should work on it with nothing in your mind, and without expecting anything. You should just cook!

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings... it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention.

Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?

Please don't try and hug me. Everyone always wants to hug me, and I am not the hugging type.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.