Quotes About Self-expression

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.

He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can't go wrong, because you can't make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn't matter that other people loved him; he simply didn't love himself enough.

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me .

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

More than anything else, I want myself. I want to live with integrity and truth. I'm not going to hide the jewel of who I am, nor will I mask my imperfections. No bargains, no avoiding reality, no conning myself, no lies.

Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life — do what you want to — not what other people want you to?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

He snorted. "Did they tell you that your vagina got you the story?" She smiled sweetly. "My vagina is my most tireless advocate.

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn't need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I'm drinking so that you're more fun to be around.

just because I'm a little weird doesn't mean I'm wrong.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

I don't think I make a very convincing dude. I think I look more like a lumberjack lesbian with an eating disorder than a kick-ass drag king.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me--just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else.

You get to define the terms of your life.

I'm just giving you shit. I think it's neat you do what you want. Not enough chicks do that, if you ask me—just tell society and their expectations to go fuck themselves. If more women did that, we'd be better off.