Yoko Ono Quotes

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

I don't want to be somebody else.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I am who I am.

I can't be anybody but myself.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

Of course, I can't be like Gary Hooper or anyone else because I'm me.

You know, I am who I am.

I don't want to be someone else.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.

I am not interested in changing who I am to fit someone else's idea of what a category should be or look like.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

I can't not be who I am.

Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.

It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.