We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

“It is hard to account for the common human resistance to happiness, unless it is that we would rather be crippled by what we…

— Sally Vickers

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

— Matthew Specktor

“For isn't that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is also true: we grow to…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with a dozen…

— Kirsty Logan

Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is…

— Joyce Tenneson

For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I…

— Bill Watterson

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission'.

— Eve Ensler

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you…

— Michelle J. Howard

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we…

— Christopher Hitchens

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to…

— Felix Bloch

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be…

— Craig Groeschel

Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without…

— Alyson Noel

“Stand up for yourself. Never give any one permission to abuse you.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

No One Can Ruin Your Day Without YOUR Permission.

— Anonymous

The idea that someone has to give you permission to become who you want to be, or see it in you in order for…

— Eva Victor