“I knew I was different, but that didn’t make me as human as anyone, or was I something else?”

“I knew I was different, but that didn’t make me as human as abyine, or was I something else?”

“Don’t fear uniqueness. Fear similarities and acceptance. Create a new trend by defining yourself.”

“It takes all shapes, sizes, and light to uplift this world. Be your own special kind of weird. You’re of immense value!”

“In the fashion industry elegance, style, and uniqueness always find their voices.”

“Your uniqueness comes from your experience, imagination, and level of consciousness and feelings. Experience more, imagine more, and feel more to be more conscious.”

“Every story has already been told. Once you’ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.”[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”

“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.”[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”

“You are the only you God made… God made you and broke the mold.”

“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”

“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”

“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

“We are souls, eternal and perfect, captains of our mystic ships: gods and goddesses of our universe. We are beautiful, we pearls of grit. We, the ember of everything. Our uniqueness IS what makes us special, and the expression of it is our gift to the rest of us. In order to feel happy and fulfilled, we must honour our own personal brand of creativity… let it out into the world… BE who we came here to BE.”

“Don’t be afraid to be who you are because you are the only person who knows you best.”