Quotes About Self-expression

I try not to be mean or hurtful, but otherwise I'm not much into self-editing.

Talking isn't hard," she whispered to herself. "You've been doing it since you were two. You know how to do this.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

I vulgarize my feelings by speaking of them too readily to others.

She patted her hair, which she wore swept up and held in place with spangled pins. The dress was a dramatic strapless red sheath she and her friend Ariel had found in a church thrift shop. Ariel swore that, after alterations, the dress would look as though it had been tailor-made for Rosa. The bright cherry-red was delicious, the open-toed ruby and rhinestone sandals made her look taller and she felt wonderful.

How simple life was when she stopped trying to do what was expected of her and followed her will.

Like most American women, you do not understand style. It does not mean parading yourself around in the latest fashion, but simply presenting your very best self to the world. Contrary to your belief, this has absolutely nothing to do with physical attributes.

It was a wonder, after so many years of trying to press herself into society's mold, to suddenly suspect that the problem was with the mold, not with her.

To Sonnet, wearing castoff clothing was just another way to make her different from the other kids at school. As if she needed one more thing to make her different.

the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable.

I try to act normal. Unfortunately I can do multiple different impressions of normal, and I can't figure out the appropriate one for the moment. I'm dangerously close to simply having to "be myself".

I'm a drag queen. I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.

He was dismayed to find that his English—despite years of mandatory instruction in school, months of private lessons with a Bible studies PhD from Exeter visiting Israel to research Christ, repeated encounters with every episode of every season of Sex and the City (subtitled), sporadic encounters with Fast & Furious 1–6 (undubbed), and an aborted reading of the collected works of Sherlock Holmes (abridged)—sucked.

After you've found your voice," Collins continued, "you realize there's only one person to imitate and that's yourself … This allows you to be authentic. That's one of the paradoxes of the writing life, that the way to originality is through imitation.

Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you live. Break my heart, why don't you?

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Por el modo de vestirse, cada uno hace de su cuerpo una ficción.

We are who we are, within our power and freedom. More power and more freedom we have, more we become closer to who we truly are.

It is so important to think for yourself.

when all of life is a costume party, costume parties are no longer possible.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

The way we dress affects the way we think. the way we feel. the way we act. & the way others react to us.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.