Quotes About Self-expression

If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Said to Mitch Album in Tuesday's with Morrie: The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things and you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it! CREATE YOUR OWN!

there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.

Pan Mycroft to, pan Mycroft tamto, pan Mycroft mo?e i?? si? wypcha?.

I could not be corseted, either literally or figuratively, into any conventional feminine mould.

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.

Let's be shameless. Be greedy. Pursue pleasure. Avoid pain. Wear and touch and eat and drink what we feel like. Tolerate other women's choices. Seek out the sex we want and fight fiercely against the sex we do not want. Choose our own causes And once we break through and change the rules so our sense of our own beauty cannot be shaken, sing that beauty and dress it up and flaunt it and revel in it.

The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don't, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice.

Women are told for so long that our feelings—our internal sensations of pain, pleasure, joy, sadness, or anger—are too much, or wrong, or bad. So eventually we can't stop thinking and thinking about these problems, trying to think them out, but we stop feeling our feelings about them.

Women will be free of the beauty myth when we can choose to use our faces and clothes and bodies as simply one form of self-expression out of a full range of others. We can dress up for our pleasure, but we must speak up for our rights.

Throughout the decade, as money's ability to buy time for comfort and leisure was abandoned in the stratospheric pursuit of wealth for wealth's sake, the competition for beauty saw a parallel inflation: the material pleasures once presented as its goals—sex, love, intimacy, self expression—were lost in a desperate struggle within a sealed economy, becoming distant and quaint memories.

Even Barbie has been redesigned with a more realistic body type and now comes in many colors. Looking around, there is a bit more room today to be oneself.

Lad os være skamløse. Grådige. Opsøge fornøjelser. Undgå smerte. Klæde os, spise og drikke, som vi har lyst til. Være tolerante over for andre kvinders valg. Vælge den form for sex, vi har lyst til og kæmpe hårdt mod den form for sex, vi ikke har lyst til. Finde vore egne grunde til at handle, som vi gør.

Don Juan said that everybody that knew me had an idea about me, and that I kept feeding the idea with everything I did. "Don't you see?" he asked dramatically. "You must renew your personal history by telling your parents, your relatives, and your friends everything you do. On the other hand, if you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

Lo que tiene que hacer usted es empezar a evitar que los demás le escriban el diálogo. Use la cabeza que Dios le ha plantado sobre las cervicales y hágase usted mismo el libreto.

To write is to rewrite, he kept reminding me. One writes for oneself, and one rewrites for others.

a man who invented his life story day after day.

Entonces? ¿O es que tienes tan bajo concepto de ti mismo que no crees que valga la pena escribir sobre ti?

One writes for oneself, and one rewrites for others.

Amilyen Å'si, oly biztos e tapasztalat: mondd meg, mivel dicsekszel, s én megmondom, mi hiányzik leginkább belÅ'led.

Se i libri parlassero, non ci sarebbero tanti sordi in giro. Quello che lei deve fare, Fernandito, è cominciare a evitare che gli altri le scrivano i dialoghi. Usi la testa che Dio le ha piazzato sulle cervicali e si scriva da sé il libretto, perché la vita è piena di trafficanti avidi di riempire la testa del rispettabile pubblico con le stupidaggini che gli convengono per continuare a tenersi in groppa all'asino e con la carota in resta.