Quotes About Self-expression

I did what I liked. If you had asked me, I would have said I was happy. Yet I always remembered.

You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

i did not have the fear that i spoke too much. i did not have to worry that i was too slender or too slow.

This and this and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender or too slow.

But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it

I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender or too slow.

He would have of me only what I wanted to give.

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

This is who I am like it or not

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

My writing is riddled with such tics of uncertainty. I have no excuse or solution, save to allow myself the tremblings, then go back in later and slash them out. In this way I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native nor foreign to me.

attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas

14. I have enjoyed telling people that I am writing a book about blue without actually doing it.

The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing ourselves in consideration of their imagined form.

I knew you were a good animal, but felt myself to be standing before an enormous mountain, a lifetime of unwillingness to claim what I wanted, to ask for it. Now here you were, your face close to mine, waiting. The words I eventually found may have been Argo , but now I know: there's no substitute for saying them with one's own mouth.

We sometimes weep in front of the mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.

Aged sixteen, is what she sees first. Then: Insists on keeping her hair long. Iris reads the whole document from beginning to end, then goes back and reads it again. It ends with: Parents report finding her dancing before a mirror, dressed in her mother's clothes.