Quotes About Self-expression

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.

Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means.

Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another.

Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em.

The Professor doesn't have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I'd even settle for being called Chard.

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

Choose what makes you feel right within, not for others.

Not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.

It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.

Je n'écris plus, je suis écrite. (p.86)

I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.

short-lived passions I pursued on my own terms.

I love clothes and have often pined for them - the beautiful dress or coat in the window. My desire is for the transformation I imagine will take place, a kind of enchantment of my own body.

Despite my efforts, I was something less than a model student, subject to passionate eruptions in class and wild excursions into related topics. At home I rehearsed calm deliveries, practiced lowering my voice to make it sound authoritative and cool, but in the heat of the moment, I would always forget.

He talks like me when I'm pretending." Matt deepened his voice, "Like this - I'm Spiderman." I stared down at Matthew. "Well, you're right, Matt," I said. "He is pretending." "But who is he pretending to be?" Matt asked. "Himself," I said.

Of course women are sexual objects; so are men. Even while I was hugging that book of feminist rhetoric to my chest, I groomed myself carefully, zipped myself into tight jeans, and went after the boy I wanted most, mentally picking apart desirable male bodies like a connoisseur.

Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because I live mine.

Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.