“Grace: Sol's probably going to ask you to do an interpretive dance. Frankie: I don't think I can. I mean, I could. I mean, I usually see where my body takes me in the moment.”— Marta Kauffman, Billy Finnegan, Frankie Bergstein, Lily Tomlin, imdb.com
“Why is it looked down upon to expose skin? Who is to say who you can and cannot be intimate with? Love who you want. Make your wildest fantasies come true. Indulge in what makes you feel alive.”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com
“He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split 1 million four ways between people who didn't conform to the normal. I did a couple of slow rolls with the X-1 (the plane in which he broke the sound barrier), and I guess he thought that qualified.”— Chuck Yeager, inspirationalstories.com
“Stop giving apologies you don’t owe. Rightfully take up space. Know you have something of value to add to the conversation. Know when to shush and just listen. Rustle feathers. Do more things that make you nervous. Do that thing people in your life won’t get but ultimately makes you feel fulfilled.…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“I do dislike being a trouble maker and because of this, I have only mumbled my discontent. Yet, now I shout it. Now I am the healthiest, wisest, sickest human you’ll meet.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“I feel like more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will. Is it chiefly intellectual snobbery that makes me dislike most people? I don’t know. I know that I am full of anger.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”— Sade Andria Zabala, lulu.com
“I am not yours! I am mine and mine and mine alone, and you do not get to take what I do not offer with bare palms, unfurled wrists!”— Sade Andria Zabala, instagram.com
“Now take a look, there's no tears in her eyes Like a bird, you know she would fly, what can you do.”— The Velvet Underground & Nico, genius.com
“I break the rules, I allow myself to step out of my comfort zone and make people uncomfortable along the way. That personal ‘rebellion’ is a form of honesty; it’s about being your most authentic self and living up to the meaning of Noor (‘Light’ in Arabic).”— Noor Tagouri, instagram.com
“By virtue of her pen she has won her freedom. She ranges the world, free like any other human being to laugh, to scold, to say what she likes, to be what she is.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“you enter the world’s quietest room and realize that you have been singing for years in a soft, unusual language you discover mouths all over yourself they want things now.”— Kimmy Walters, products.bottlecap.press
“A mermaid without fins - who knew? You can’t drown me now, I learned how to drown myself and I’d rather choke on ocean foam than swim in strangers’ beds.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my pride I do not mix love with pity nor hate with scorn and if you would know me look into th…”— Audrey Lorde, mudras.tumblr.com
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.”— Robert Downey Jr., goodreads.com
“‘Nature is woman’s best friend,’ she often said. ‘If you’re having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That’s how a woman cures her fears.’”— Fatema Mernissi, amazon.com
“There is shame. There is fear. And there is a dizzying freedom.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com