Josiah Royce Quotes

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I was just another girl.

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

Conforming is not cool.

I try to be as normal as I can.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.