Quotes About Self-expression

Yes, Miss Masters, but walking is also a way to announce who you are. Gideon waved one arm impassionedly. How you view yourself in the world. The way you hold yourself, the way you move, how you occupy a space, tells other people a good deal about you, ~from To Love a Thief

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me. One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that.

Part of me has turned wild, and another part's turned dark as endless night, and I'm not going to change back just because someone says I must.

There's a difference between being afraid and letting people see that you are

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

not his mother, nor did he hesitate to say so.

I only asked the mask to help me recover … I never once asked it to do things its own way.…

Fiecare îÅŸi are propria lui filosofie, care nu i se potriveÅŸte decît lui.

La consciencia de mis capacidades literarias es, a última hora del día y por la mañana, inabarcable.

Verrücktheiten können ganz normal sein, solange man sie selbst tut; beobachtet man einen anderen dabei, rümpft man die Nase, dreht sich rasch um und geht davon.

Sweet? Submissive? May as well be a housewife Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it dims my luster, makes me resemble others—that's the worst thing that could happen.

we have come to depend on the instant rush of energy and delight we feel when we display our cleverness by making an unkind remark and the spurt of triumph when we vanquish an annoying colleague. Thus do we assert ourselves and tell the world who we are. It is difficult to break a habit upon which we depend for our sense of self.

Margaret," she told me time and again, "you may be anything you wish, so long as you're never boring.

I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.

Women never dress without thought.

Just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball, or even that I want to.

Fair warning, as it turned out—kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not.

The other guy is obviously meant for me. He's quite short. I don't care about that. I'm quite short myself. I prefer beta males to alphas. Only he keeps telling me to smile. Nothing's as bad as all that, he says. If I were five years old, I'd have bitten him by now.

I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. Freak or fake, I'd been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.

Andy opened her mouth and screamed as loud as she could. It felt good, but she couldn't scream for the rest of her life.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

I am a living label. My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld.

The less you eat, drink and buy books the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.