Quotes About Self-expression

What is feminism from my point of view as a woman and as a human being?" Who fucking cares? you thought. "It's the right every woman has to make her own choices. People don't have to like your choices

From a very early age, girls were taught to restrain themselves physically and emotionally.

There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it isn't too distant or disconnected from who we really are. Later, in the forties and fifties, it becomes imperative to find our way back to the truest things we know and to compose a more authentic self. Now

What is disassembling is that narrow self we have thus far put together in a form tailored to please the culture and other people.

THE TRYING TWENTIES CONFRONTS US WITH THE QUESTION of how to take hold in the adult world. Incandescent with our molten energies, having outgrown the family and the formlessness of our transiting years, we are impatient to pour ourselves into the exactly right form—our own way of living in the world.

Play is the child's symbolic language of self-expression and can reveal (a) what the child has experienced; (b) reactions to what was experienced; (c) feelings about what was experienced; (d) what the child wishes, wants, or needs; and (e) the child's perception of self.

They say you can compare a man's shoe size to his manhood. So that's why I keep my skis on everywhere I go.

You should shine with all of your light all the time.

I realized, then, that being an adult was just about bullshitting everyone around you. Just do things until someone stops you from doing those things, and then say, "Oh, that isn't allowed?

I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

Songs to Herself: She waved at all the people on the trains & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.

Today, she decided to be suitably ambiguous, so you can think whatever you like about her. (Amount of time scheduled for the opinions of others: ZERO) —Suitably Ambiguous

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

He found the slot that people thought best suited him and he crammed himself into it. He grew up.

I live kind of within myself as a person, so my outlet has always been the Muppets; therefore, I tend to do sort of wildly extroverted characters," said Jim.

The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

Simply being an introvert can also feel taxing—especially in America, land of the loud and home of the talkative.

Just about every adult introvert can remember being scolded, even if gently, for being too quiet as a kid.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!