Fay Weldon Quotes

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

I've always been in a rebel.

I really rebel against authority.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

I don't care much about conforming.

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.