Quotes About Nonconformity

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.

Akhila, if there is one virtue I have, it is immunity to what people think of me. Naturally this makes them dislike me even more. People don't like to think that their opinion of someone means nothing to that person. And when it is a woman . . . the thought is intolerable. But like I said, I don't care.

She didn't want to be an out-and-out character any more than she wanted to be one of the herd, so Beth beat herself a path between the two.

Kristy doesn't care much about her appearance. Her brown hair is usually sort of messy, and she wears clothes only because it's against the law to go to school naked.

We need to tell each other stories of different ways you can live, different ways you can be; predicated not on how close you get to the life you were assumed or expected to have, but on the queer wanderings of a life you live.

Don't you give me no rotten tomato, Dexter sang, just 'cause to your crazy shit I cannot relate-o.

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

I didn't care that they snickered when I answered yes, or spoke in hushed tones. Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad.

I am not here to entertain straight people.

I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence.

did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence"—applied

antinomian.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Being a heretic can be fun, but being a successful heretic is mostly hard work.

I'm myself, not a label.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Cadillac might have been off the beaten track, but a lot of folk preferred the ditch to the highway. It was like Neil Young said: you meet more interesting people there.

You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

And dare love that, and say so too,And forget the He and She.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.