Janet Fitch Quotes

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Everything that happens today is like something in the past, but it's also unlike things in the past. We never know until an event happens if it's the similarities or differences that matter more.

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

The more people were telling me that I couldn't come to school with make-up on my eyes, the next day I would just make my eyes even darker, and with black hair.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist.

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.