Quotes About Self-expression

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

Remember, girl: It's the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be! Just as long as you follow the rules.

Your moustache," I continue. "It's kind of like me wanting to be a writer. It's part of me. I don't know who I'd be if I didn't want to be a writer.

You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

I am not a genuine woman, but I am not interested in genuineness.

Ah'd rather be silly old fool than a lonely old woman you see.

Laura: I've never danced in my life! Jim: Come on, try! Laura: Oh, but I'd step on you! Jim: I'm not made out of glass.

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull.

MarkBaynard: [...] When you wrote yr 1st book, did U ever dream it was going to be welcomed by the world w/open arms? Abby_Donovan: I didn't write it for the world. I wrote it for me. MarkBaynard: Then that's what you need to do again. Write yourself another book. Abby_Donovan: But I know in my heart I'll never write anything as good as that book. MarkBaynard: [...] It doesn't matter what you write as long as you stop beating yourself up about not writing and start writing.

Nobody should have to hide who they are inside to please people on the outside.

At some point, we need to be honest with ourselves and do what excites us instead of what looks good on paper.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

People ought to think for themselves... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. (Corporal Carrot)

On a million hillsides the girl ran, on a million bridges the girl chose, on a million paths the woman stood... All different, all one. All she could do for all of them was be herself, here and now, as hard as she could.

The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else's.

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

Granny hesitated. Agnes who calls herself Perditax? Perdita X, said Nanny. She at least respected anyone's right to recreate themselves.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. And what if your story doesn't work? You keep changing it until you find one that does.

But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Right, pass the word along: no one is to look like a sock, understand?

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

She was who she was, and either you accepted it or you could just go to hell.