People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
acceptance-of-oneself, accepting, gossip, liberation