Quotes About Nonconformity

Fuck normal. Give me a good war any day.

I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

Gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

The first question we usually ask new parents is: "Is it a boy or a girl?". There is a great answer to that one going around: "We don't know; it hasn't told us yet." Personally, I think no question containing "either/or" deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

The most truly eccentric dresser in this country is the Queen, who pays no attention whatsoever to fashion

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Joe said of herself: 'I was never a little girl. I came out of the womb queer.

You must have wished a million times to be normal." "No." "No?" "I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special." "Not normal?" "Never.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

I am beyond Right and Left, just as I am beyond good and evil… I am a man devoted to life, not to formulas.

Christa hardly recognized her student. Black spandex jeans gave way to boots that rattled with lengths of chain. Leather jacket. Studded belts. A T-shirt that had been deliberately slashed into a borderline state between legality and indecency. Bandannas fluttered from ankles, elbows, wrists. Melinda had added perhaps a good six inches to her height with a teasing comb and liberal application of hairspray. Her blue eyes sparkled at Christa from within dark walls of eyeliner and shadow.

That's why children can surprise you. They never fill out the proper forms.

New Orleans' rebellious and free-spirited personality is nothing if not resilient. And so the disruptive energies of the place- its vibrancy and eccentricity, its defiance and nonconformity, and yes, its violence and depravity- are likely to live on.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I've become one of those horrible women who goes around saying things like, 'Now that I am old, I shall wear more purple.

The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

Islam has strong social aspects based around the concept of ummah – the community of believers – and expressions of individualism or nonconformity tend to be frowned upon. Members are expected to pull together and behave (at least in public) in ways that uphold its Islamic ethos. Thus, when someone breaks away from established norms – especially if they do so publicly – they are liable to be seen as damaging communal solidarity

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.