Ashley Graham Quotes

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

People always had something to say about the fact I was odd looking, bigger than other people, that I was awkward. When I discovered punk, I bought into it. That look, combined with being fat, made me even less of what people thought a young woman should be.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Rather be dead than cool.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

The more people were telling me that I couldn't come to school with make-up on my eyes, the next day I would just make my eyes even darker, and with black hair.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

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.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

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.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.