Quotes About Self-expression

Don't ever let a soul in the world tell you, you can't be exactly who you are.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.

Wenn man etwas tut, um anderen zu gefallen, kann es nicht gelingen, aber bei den Dingen, die man tut, um sich selbst zu zufriedenzustellen, besteht immer die Aussicht, dass sie auch das Interesse von anderen wecken.

Entonces, Sofía, ¿cuál sería la forma correcta de ser mujer? Y la sonrisa compasiva de Sofía. -Ninguna. O todas.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

I refuse to dawn the velvet tether of meaningless expectations and follow you blindly.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.

I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

Where I make an impression it must be by being most myself.

Because they don't know [the anger is] there inside them. [...] They think they are sweet reasonableness, and it's you that's in the wrong, just by being, and not being like them, or looking like them, or wanting their kind of life.

Impegnarsi per essere naturali è già una sconfitta.

Remember that sometimes it's when we're simply being ourselves that we make a difference.

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

I realized you know what? That is not how I wanna live my life; I don't want to be responsible for creating a safeness space for somebody else to open, I want them to meet me there

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.

With living creatures / one must begin very early / to dwarf their growth : / the bound feet, / the crippled brain, / the hair curlers, / the hands you / love to touch.

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? "Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.

Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to any­one who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up and be like 'Hey babe, what's your sign?' and I'll just point to my shirt." Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. "Of course they might think you're pointing to your boobs in a 'have at 'em, big boy' kind of way.