Quotes About Identity

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

So we sit, inside our separate skins, and every now and then lean forward to gaze hard at another person and read his or her looks. We ask, 'how's the weather in there?' And if they can answer, if they so choose, we're privileged to share for a brief time what it means to be other than who we are. Might it be that animals share--to varying degrees, inside their varied skins--these same shadowy contents from which love, terror, grief, compassion, and shame spring?

I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.

It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.

Você tem que ser verdadeiro consigo mesmo, mesmo que isso vá contra o que é esperado.

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.

And who can speak more authoritatively of what it is like to inhabit the middle ground between biology and culture than gender-variant people? An individual who has inhabited the social roles of both and and woman, with all the cultural baggage that accrues to both states - or to neither- acquires a kind of gender gnosis: a secret knowledge denied the rest of us who live in our assigned boxes, M or F, with really probing the boundaries.

Avery important change that has yet to be made is the time we transgenders are no longer called 'sex changes'. After all, consider this: we are NOT CHANGING anything! Indeed, we are merely CORRECTING pronouns, names, manner of dress, hormones and less to MATCH what has always been in our brains...

Straight people, like gay or transgendered people, have complex and multifaceted gender identities.

to be an artist is to assert one's will, but to be a woman is to relinquish it.

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence.

Maybe most of all, Karl is like family because of how I feel when I'm around him: completely and unself-consciously myself.

a girl who posts a picture of herself on Instagram must show that she doesn't take herself too seriously, either by mugging or with a self-deprecating or humorous caption or, preferably, both.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

We were talking about The Bell Jar, because we were sixteen, and we wanted to be depressed in New York.

you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221

Going to church will not get you the black man you seek and it never will. Page 98

Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks.

Eu n-am avut identitate pân? când nu mi-ai dat tu una.

It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.

We cannot truly know and understand how God speaks to us unless we have actually experienced it. Learning to discern the fingerprint of God on your own life allows you to know deep in your soul and your skin the person God calls you to be. Then be that person instead of trying to be what you aren't. You'll be much richer for the experience. So will the rest of the world.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.