Quotes About Self-expression

It wasn't obvious to my generation how or if one could become oneself, an individual, without performing what the psychoanalyst Louise Kaplan memorably called a "female-female impersonation.

There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself. —Yevgeniy Vinokurov

But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.

May I" was a way of life for a girl like me.

I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did. When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look. Now I blended in.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.

never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else

S? fii intodeauna o versiune de prim? mân? a propriei persoane, nu una de mâna a doua a altcuiva.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

Eine Eigenschaft war etwas, auf das man mit dem Finger zeigen konnte, wenn man sich selber meinte. [...] Durch den Erwerb von Eigenschaften gelang noch dem Dümmsten der schwierige Akt der Selbsterschaffung.

Mühelos schlüpfte Gerhard in den rechten Schuh. Danach war es unmöglich, den Blick davon abzuwenden. Der Schuh adelte den Stoff der etwas zu dünnen und etwas zu blauen Hose, er adelte die ganze Person. Gerhard spazierte vor dem Spiegel auf und ab, den linken Fuß in der ausgetretenen Sandale, den rechten im eleganten Derby-Schuh, und sah die Beine von zwei völlig verschiedenen Menschen, die grausamerweise aus ein und demselben Körper hingen.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

We have to find our own way to live, and to love. Don't ever let anyone else tell you how it should be for you.

It's good that you can be horrid when neccesary. It's a useful skill." She leaned on her elbow, settling her chin onto her hand. "Funny, my brother never seemed to think so.

It is of no concern. I don't mind that I am not universally adored. If I wanted everyone to like me, I'd have to be kind and charming and bland and boring all the time, and what would be the fun in that?

Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

She enjoyed all of her names, and she was proud of every last one, but the one she liked best was Lottie. Lottie. It was the simplest of the bunch, but that wasn't why she liked it. Her tastes rarely ran to the simple, after all. She liked her wigs tall and her dresses grand and she was quite certain no one in her household appreciated the complexities of music or art as keenly as she did.

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.

Every person with a disability is an individual.