Individuality

"Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently."

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself."

"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one."

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."

"Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself."

"I’m not sure if there’s anything worse than being ordinary."

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself."

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be."

"The world is as different as the individual that inhabits it."

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your won."

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."

"To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman."

"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained."

"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."

"I may not be your kind of person, but I am my kind of person."