Self Expression Quotes

"No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow" "I would always rather be happy than dignified" "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" "Freedom is the essence of self-consciousness." "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom." "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." "Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself" "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it" "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" "I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create" "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." "I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be" "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth" "Once you label me, you negate me" "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position" "You are what you tweet."