Quotes about Individuality

Never let someone's opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Love yourself just as you are.

I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

When I consider the seven women I chose, I see that most of them were great for reasons that derive precisely from their being women, not in spite of it; and what made them great has nothing to do with their being measured against or competing with men. In other words, their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women.

She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men.

Men and women are not interchangeable. There are things men can and should do that women cannot, and there are things that women can and should do that men cannot. So comparing men and women is something like comparing apples and oranges, except apples and oranges are actually far more like each other than are men and women. Apples and oranges can exist without each other, but men and women cannot.

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards.

At some point every person must hear from God, must know what God was calling him to do, apart from others.