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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I've been labeled all my life.

You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.