Quotes About Nonconformity

Zag when they think you'll zig.

Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable.

Portugal é o país onde as regras são meras sugestões.

Kun døde fisk flyder med strømmen"—"Only dead fish swim with the current.")

Are you breaking some either/or cultural law, just by being who you are? If so, you're not alone.

Personally, I think no question containing either/or deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

And then I found out that gender can have fluidity , which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.

I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself. It doesn't matter to me, and you may think me unwomanly if you like.

I think heroes and heroines are both vulgar and boring and usually lead that kind of lives. But when you tell people you were just doing your own thing in an admittedly escalated situation, they say, Ah, yes, etc.

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

If you cannot fit into the mould, then you must step out of it

Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves." NYC in 1979

Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves.

glory be to those humans who are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations and themselves

Maturity is highly overrated.

Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? Goth doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

He who walks out of step hears another drum.

To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.

He hadn't let what he looked like run his life one way or the other, any more than he'd let the Combine mill him into fitting where they wanted him to fit.

He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum