I am not a number; I am a free man.
Patrick McGoohanTags: individuality freedom free nonconformity the-prisoner
She was a surprise, and let's face it, few people are.
Donna Lynn HopeTags: unique nonconformity surprised
-I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!
Andrew James PritchardTags: nonconformity meditation life-in-general
This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
Donna Woolfolk CrossTags: nonconformity feminism living-without-regrets pope-joan
her choice to be, not only a poet but a woman who explored her own mind, without any of the guidelines of orthodoxy. To say "yes" to her powers was not simply a major act of nonconformity in the nineteenth century; even in our own time it has been assumed that Emily Dickinson, not patriarchal society, was "the problem." The ore we come to recognise the unwritten and written laws and taboos underpining patriarchy, the less problematical, surely, will seem the methods she chose.
Adrienne RichTags: nonconformity
If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: conformity nonconformity ideas public-opinion abortion herd-mentality sperm
I was aware that he was laughing at me, but I told myself I didn't care what other people thought and would dress how I liked. Of course, like many self-consciously wacky people, I was in fact paralyzed by fear of the opinions of others and made the effort to appear as the maddest of the mad headbangers just in case anyone had the slightest lingering doubt as to the depth of my devotion. In fact, I think my disguise felt so fragile I couldn't allow it a single crack. If I did it might fall to bits and leave the real me shrivelling under the evaluating gaze of my peer group.
Mark BarrowcliffeTags: nonconformity peer-pressure heavy-metal contrarianism low-self-esteem teen-rebellion time-of-the-hawklords
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