Quotes About Self-expression

There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.

I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.

Fix your hair,' she says, then shrugs again. 'Or make it wilder. You look lovely either way.

And I'm not afraid of your trying to figure out what it means to be your whole self

How do people like us take off our armour? One piece at a time.

If i pretend not to be scared, I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

I think I have Ring Pops somewhere here, from trick-or-treating. I went as myself.

No need for dramatics.' 'I am nothing,' Cardan said, 'if not dramatic.

These clothes are a costume for me. I am playing dress-up in ignorance

I am no Court lady with lips of carmine and butterflies in my hair. I am scrawny, like a stick bug.

If you don't think for yourself, then you're admitting that your theory of happiness is the old dog asleep in the sun.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Jane walked into the playground feeling a strange sense of calm. Perhaps she needed to learn from Madeline's example. No more avoiding confrontation. March up to your critics and bloody well tell them what you think.

Bugger niceness. It was overrated.

that beautiful woman held themselves differently; they swayed like palm trees in the breeze of all that attention. Cecilia wanted her daughters to run and stride and stomp. She didn't want Polly to bloody sway.

He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

You never changed your appearance for men, you changed it for other women,

Fuck it, maybe she'd even get her hair cut.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Even deaf bitches say hi to me, she tell a blind bitch and she say I gotta see.

Nigga Im the shit, get the fuck up out my toilet.

I do what I do and you do what you can do about it.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.