Quotes About Personhood

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person

Before bed each night, I reread my notes and studied the Bible, savoring its rich lessons. Right there in bold print, for anyone to read, was the message of love. God treasured all his children equally, regardless of gender. For the first time in my life, I was truly content simply being a person, not a wife, not a mother, not a woman. A person.

If you see in me more than my function or job, then I can slowly communicate to you on a deeper level. I can become a person to you.

No matter how attached I became to a 'cunt', I was always more interested in the person who owned it. A cunt doesn't live a separate, independent existence. Nothing does. Everything is interrelated.

A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Outcasts can interpret reality for themselves. Even when their perception of reality contradicts that of hundreds or thousands of followers, they can clearly see the problems and press for solutions to those problems. Outcasts are unimpressed by position or personhood. They love God and want to protect his people and his institutions from spiritual fraud.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Learning that someone is gay, queer, trans, doesn't tell you much by itself. They could be any kind of person aside from that particular slice of identity.

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

No ID, no person

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

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Assistant to name designer," the ad had said. Yeah, well, she has a name all right. But then, so do we all.

And sonograms distort reality in another, more subtle way: You can only take a picture of the embryo/fetus if you erase the body of the pregnant woman. As with the famous optical illusion of the duck-rabbit, you can't see them both at the same time. In a sonogram the fetus is the subject, the woman is the background; the case for its personhood is made by turning her into gray-and-white wallpaper.

It is a simple thing, a name. We are given one, we grow in to it, we bear it. Simple for the rest of creation.

If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?

So many of the mothers she knew said that their children were exactly themselves from the moment they appeared in the world. But Sadie disagreed. What person was a person without language? Tastes? Preferences? Experiences? And on the other side of childhood, what grown-up wanted to believe that they had emerged from their parents fully formed? Sadie knew that she herself had not become a person until recently. It was unreasonable to expect a child to emerge whole cloth.

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity

It's kinda cool to think about you as a real person, instead of some fetus ghost.