Quotes About Self-expression

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

Don't like me for who I am? Then you don't like me for who I am. And all you're gonna get is who I am.