Quotes About Self-discovery

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.