Saul Bellow Quotes

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I've always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

If you're weird, it's good to be weird.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

People don't expect me to have a weird sense of humor, but I do. I'm very eccentric.

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

I'm not incredibly self-conscious. I don't really feel like I walk around making fashion or my appearance the most important thing in the world. It's certainly not the way that I live my life. I'm not really sure how the magazines perceive me because I don't read them.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. That's just ok.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.