Quotes About Self

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

For a lot of people, I will always be the mall girl, and that's OK. That was my start. But I can do so much more than that.

I'm the wife. I'm the mom. I'm the friend. And, you know, my friends call me 'Mama T,' or 'Dr. T,' and that's, guess, what I am - the Mama T and the Dr. T. That's who I am.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

My mantra when it comes to money is always remember that money doesn't make you. You make the money.

We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.

People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn't marry because I had to change.

The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

I can't wear thethe ! I want my thtwipey oneth !

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Like tiny islands on the horizon, they can vanish in rough seas. Even in calm weather, their coral gradually erodes, pickled by salt and heat. Yet they form the shoals of a life. Some offer safe lagoons and murmuring trees. Others crawl with pirates and reptiles. Together they connect a self with the mainland and society. Plot their trail and a mercurial past becomes visible. Memories feel geological in their repose, solid and true, the bedrock of consciousness.

Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We are the sum of our memories.

Time has passed. Things have happened. More time will pass. More things will happen. I have become myself again, but I am not the same. Perhaps that is a good thing... This is my life and I'm going to live it.

No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

It was odd to think that only a few years ago she had been Helena Greville. It seemed a lot longer. When she thought about that girl now it was as if she was thinking about someone she used to know, and know quite well, but would never see again. Helena Greville was gone for good.

Do you mean to tell me, Aurelius, that you are a foundling?" "Yes. That is the word for what I am. A foundling.

Para poder inventarme, antes que nada, debía disociarme.

That the self advances and confirms the myriad things is called delusion. That the myriad things advance and confirm the self is enlightenment.

The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?

I feel artificially myself. I'm someone who's supposed to be me.

I want to put your voice back inside your body, where it belongs.

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Her sweat is a rank reminder, the only one, that she exists, that she is separate from the things that surround her.

She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself.