Non-Traditional Lifestyle Quotes

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life.

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

I swore I would never do a reality show. I've been offered them for years and years because our family life is a little crazy - I will admit to that. Definitely not the conventional mom or family - or anything, for that matter.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' By the time they left, they understood why, because I had done the second act of 'West Side Story' and the first act of 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' playing all the parts. In many ways, that's what I'm still doing. I'm just getting paid better.

I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

I'm a man in a wig who is an entertainer, I'm not a role model.

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with anyone being proud to be a parent. I love children, some of my best friends used to be children. But I was fed up of these 'competitions,' so I decided to do the opposite, I decided to do the non-motherhood challenge and post five photos of myself which made me proud not to be a mother.

My parents' set-up was very traditional, whereas that's not the life I've chosen to lead.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.