“I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”
“It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.”
“I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are delicate things.”
“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.”