Rejecting Social Norms Quotes

There is a certain panic, at least if you're raised Mormon, to being single at 31. But what they don't tell you is that it can also be kinda great.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.

It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or anger. People got angry at me when I stopped making music because it seemed I was devaluing everything.

I had begun to abandon bourgeois style of dress. The modern hippies are no pioneers at marking themselves out by unusual apparel …

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Now I almost overly embrace how weird I am, how I look and how oddly camp I am. It's almost too honest for me because I harboured ambitions to be quite a cool, good-looking guy.

My dad tells me to ignore any expectation.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Women who make the choice to have grey hair - I think that's beautiful.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is - and not go with the standard one that everyone's told them they're supposed to have.

If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.