Mary Gaitskill Quotes

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.

I have the point that everybody essentially have these unique set of DNA you have. There's something different about you genetically. You are unique is what I am trying to say - the combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.

There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.

Everyone is special in their own way.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.