Quotes About Nonconformity

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Normal people think I'm insane.

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

I do not walk like a duck.

Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it" "I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

What puzzled me was why I seemed to be so troubled by all these irregularities and exceptions to major rules while others blithely marched ahead.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

She's got a man's nightshirt on and stockings with holes in them. Somebody else's tie, a gold and green chevroned number, hangs around her neck and just at this moment it looks like a king's mantle draped over her shoulders. Her hair's all loose, her lipstick and eyeliner gone a-roving. She's got a cigar in one hand and a jar full of gin in the other, and she's laughing, laughing like for once that damned chicken crossed the road for something really good.

My old friends, you must help me! Tell me what it is that a girl does in the way that a spider weaves, so that Solace will not grow up to be the wrong sort of girl." We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

The scholar Kathryn Bond Stockton writes about how the queer child "grows sideways," because queer life often defies the linear chronology of marriage and children.

Some people might think this erratic, possibly a cause for concern. She preferred to think of it as not giving a single, solitary fuck.

Laten we ons nergens wat van aantrekken en op de gewone tijd gaan eten.

The world is gonna try and clean you up; what you gonna do about it? They're gonna try to make you pretty, what the fuck you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, 'I WANNA STAY UGLY.'

Her love for him not militate against her love for other people, did not force itself upon him when he did not invite it, did not belittle or destroy him, even by mendacious praise. When he was dying she was there to help him. This strange distant love-affair is only one example of how many forms love might take if we had the foresight and the imagination to rescue it from the stereotypes of our dying consumer culture.

only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made.