Herself Quote by Avijeet Das

“She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

— Jodi Picoult

“And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity.”

— Donna Tartt

“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”

— John Updike

“They tried to define her. Some called her perpetually enigmatic. Some said she was fucking crazy. I didn't matter to her what they called…

— Mishi McCoy

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Might never know, because she was one of those people who would always be defined by the way others perceived her.”

— Amanda Stevens

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“She stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”

— Michelle Hodkin

“She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible…

— Azar Nafisi

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

“She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.”

— Kate Millett