Quotes About Self-expression

she was really very pretty, one of the prettiest girls she knew. And as if to prove it she raised her arms and unloosed her hair, a thing she knew to be vaguely sinful, yet necessary, like a hot bath or a warm bed on a winter's night. She imagined herself for a truly sinful moment as someone wicked — a dancer, an actress.

He got up and said, I think you've got something in you. I don't know. Women very rarely have. I mean most women just want to be good at something, they've got good-at minds, and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not. They can't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes doesn't seem important to you. Whether

It is not enough to merely be authentic in sharing yourself; to succeed in dating you need to consider how you will be interpreted as well.

To feel better, women talk about past problems, future problems, potential problems, even problems that have no solutions. The more talk and exploration, the better they feel. This is the way women operate. To expect otherwise is to deny a woman her sense of self.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising.

You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.

Adam, we can't make being safe the guiding principle of our lives. We have to be who we are—we can only do what we do, sweetie.

If you're living the way you want to, the concept of holidays becomes obsolete.

Hello, my name is Beth. I'm an Ellen Jamesian. And Garp would give her this: Hello, my name is Garp. I have a broken jaw.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out—by doing it.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.