Quotes About Self-expression

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

The brands we like, and buy, and surround ourselves with—and by now you know I define a "brand" as anything from the music on our playlists to our shoes, to our sheets, to our toothpaste, to the artwork hanging on our walls—have the profoundest possible things to say about who we are.

men and women have two ages: a chronological age, and an emotional age they feel inside. (I'll explore this subject in more detail in a later chapter.) Men typically conceal evidence of their younger selves in drawers, or buried inside online folders, whereas women are less embarrassed about publicly showcasing their younger selves, and express it openly

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

After having been made a wife to an older man and an attendant to a princess, the identity she chose to retain was the one she had acquired by her own initiative: that of an author.

Per un attimo penso di non risponderle. Alla fine però lo faccio. Magari non sembrerà granché coerente, ma cerco di spiegare che invidiavo Uman perché sapeva spezzare i vincoli che la vita ci impone. Perché sapeva essere quello che voleva e se ne fregava di cosa gli altri pensavano di lui. Che conoscere Uman mi aveva fatto capire quanto ero diventata prevedibile.

hi my name is luke, it rhymes with puke!

defend women's right to be wrong, at least occasionally.

Nonetheless, whatever mystery surrounds them, the Olmec have left us a powerful in-your-face reminder that across the world, when people first made art they made it about themselves. From the very beginning art has been about us.

Maybe Jenny and Grace weren't so different from the butterfly… maybe they both needed to simply be who they were, stop trying to wish themselves into something else, someone else… or their color would get rubbed off… by unmet expectations, friends, family… even themselves. Maybe it was time to learn to accept who they were… time to learn to protect their color.

I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

I'm not a blonde!! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot!

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.