Gail Carriger Quotes

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

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.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Dawn Steel was the person who told me I could never wear shoes like this! She and Nora Ephron told me 'you can't wear those crappy shoes, nobody would ever take you seriously'. I've been wearing them ever since then!

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

Everything I wear is a do and everything else is a don't!

I always wear my hat backwards. That way, people can see my face.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.