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Quotes About Self-expression

Always be who YOU are, be self-aware, and love yourself tremendously!
~ Zulay Henao
I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.
~ Grace Ogot
Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.
~ Jenna Ushkowitz
I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But baby, that's just me
~ Jon Bon Jovi
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.
~ Larry Sultan
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.
~ Anna Sui
I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.
~ Ashthon Jones
I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
~ Camila Alves
I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.
~ Martina Navratilova
Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.
~ Nan Kempner
I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.
~ Yara Shahidi
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
~ Alber Elbaz
When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.
~ Bonnie Wright
Different from Zuleika, he cared for his wardrobe and his toilet-table not as a means to making others admire him the more, but merely as a means through which he could intensify, a ritual in which to express and realise, his own idolatry.
~ Max Beerbohm
The most liberating of all thoughts is disregard or "disconcern" for what other people think. Famous mail-order impresario and entrepreneur J. Peterman wrote (in his autobiography Peterman Rides Again); "Once you realize that most people are keeping up appearances and putting on a show, their approval becomes less important." Excessive concern over what other people think inhibits personality more than any other factor.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear of giving oneself away.
~ May Sarton
We have to break the mirror to be ourselves...
~ May Sarton
I suppose I have a thing about old women. Their characters may be rather stylized, but once you get past mannerism, they are, well? how to put it? Transparent. It isn't worth it any longer to wear a mask.
~ May Sarton
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
~ Maya Angelou
I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that's happy.
~ Maya Angelou
Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.
~ Maya Angelou
Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint. It is wise to take the time to develop one's own way of being, increasing those things one does well and eliminating the elements in one's character which can hinder and diminish the good personality.
~ Maya Angelou