Quotes About Self-expression

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

I would say at times I am a 'Glamoholic.' But I am definitely more laid back than glamorous.I think it takes a lot of effort and sometimes I just want to be in jeans.

If people are going to hate me, I want them to hate me for the right reasons

I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.

We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

The only time he cries is if he's hungry. We all have nipples. I don't care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can't get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do

Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

I see myself on top, doing what I love to do, and doing it the way I want to do it. No rules, just doing my own thing.

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.