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"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."
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"He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be."

"When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things."

"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"

"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."

"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."

"Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and also the integrity of a lost girl, by saying two things. First, the trivial doings of Paris Hilton are of no importance to me, or anyone else, and I should not be forced to contemplate them. Second, she should be left alone to lead such a life as has been left to her. If this seems paradoxical, then very well."

"Dare to be different."

"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
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"My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen."

"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."

"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others."

"It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress."

"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."

"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality."
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