Shailene Woodley Quotes

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I don't use labels a lot.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.