Quotes About Self-expression

Maaf, Bapak-Bapak. Aku adalah pemberontak dan akan selalu memberontak. Aku tidak mau didikte di hari pernikahanku.

Kita harus melepaskan diri dari pengaruh-pengaruh yang membelenggu kita pada masa lalu yang memalukan, seperti para pelayan, jongos, dan orang desa yang tidak punya nama dan tidak punya wajah.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

The heck with it. What you see is what you get. Like it or lump it. It matters not to me.

Each man is his own poem, Levi. Keep yours a good one.

Call me the stereotype, then, but what you don't know is that there's more to me than meets the eye. I can be reasonable-girl. I can be reliable-girl. I can be contented-girl, even. I refuse to fit into any set category, so don't even try to stick a label on me because it'll never fully describe who I am. You

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

I don't want beauty, I want identity.

It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.

Yes, she felt a perfect animal inside her. The thought of one day setting this animal loose disgusted her. Perhaps for fear of lack of aesthetic. Or dreading a revelation… No, no, she repeated, you mustn't be afraid to create.

The courage to be something other than what one is, to give birth to oneself, and to leave one's former body on the ground. And without having answered to anyone about whether it was worthwhile.

She herself asked for nothing, but her sex made its demands like a sunflower germinating in a tomb.

That night I'd already had quite a bit to drink. I wandered from bar to bar, until, excessively happy, I was afraid I'd outdo myself: I'd grown too comfortable in my own skin. I was looking for a way to pour some of myself out, before I completely overflowed

Há um livro em cada um de nós", dizem. E talvez daí eu tenha querido expulsar de mim um livro que eu escreveria se para isso talento eu tivesse, e mais a perseverança.

Tem um lado mau – o mais forte e o que predominava embora eu tenha tentado esconder por causa de você – nesse lado forte eu sou uma vaca, sou uma cavala livre e que pateia no chão, sou mulher da rua, sou vagabunda – e não uma 'letrada'. Sei que sou inteligente e que às vezes escondo isso para não ofender os outros com minha inteligência, eu que sou uma subconsciente.

Sorry dat ik zoveel fouten typ. Dat komt ten eerste doordat mijn rechterhand verbrand is. En ten tweede weet ik niet waarom. Nu een verzoek: corrigeert u mij niet. De interpunctie is de ademhaling van een zin en mijn zinnen ademen zo. En als u mij raar vindt, respecteer dat dan ook. Zelfs ik werd gedwongen mezelf te respecteren. Schrijven is een vloek.

Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!

Avísenme si empiezo a convertirme en demasiado yo misma»

Este é um livro fresco – recém-saído do nada. Escrevo para nada e para ninguém. Inspiração não é loucura. É Deus. A impessoalidade é uma condição. A loucura é a tentação de ser totalmente o poder. Pois também eu solto as minhas amarras: mato o que me perturba. Escrevo para me livrar da carga difícil de uma pessoa ser ela mesma.

Patricia Williams has pointed out in The Alchemy of Race and Rights: "The cold game of equality staring makes me feel like a thin sheet of glass…. I could force my presence, the real me contained in those eyes, upon them, but I would be smashed in the process." Interviewed

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Being famous is not everything. Being yourself is more than just anything.

The purpose of writing is not to commend the flaws and imperfections in life. We do not write to encourage enmity or to instigate evil. We want to promote writing not as self-expression, but to minimize life's imperfections.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.