Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I can't be anybody but myself.

I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

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.

The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

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

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

I need to just be myself, express myself.

I just need to be me.

Be yourself. And every person is unique.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.

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 am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them