Quotes About Nonconformity

I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

I feel outside of the system where you're male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don't represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

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.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

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

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

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.