Quotes About Identity

Women have this deep instinctive need to build a man up as a man. I suppose this is because real men become fewer and fewer, and we are frightened, trying to create a man.

They're a bunch of Jews, too,' said Donovan gracefully. 'After knowing me for so long, you should have learned discrimination.

Younger woman says, "I'm not going to be like my mother. You're maniacs. You're mad." "Yes," [older woman responds] "I know it. And so you won't be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is his chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

I'm not going to be like my mother. You're maniacs. You're mad. "Yes," said Kate. "I know it. And so you won't be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

There is absolutely nothing like love for showing how many different people can live inside one skin.

She put that book down and picked up Ellis. Now, it is hardly possible to be bored by a book on sex when one is fifteen, but she was restless because this collection of interesting facts seemed to have so little to do with her own problems.

Please don't be alarmed, you'd be surprised how many charming people are walking our streets, the mere ghosts of themselves.

A cat needs a place as much as it needs a person to make its own.

it seemed to her that she had acquired not virtues but a form of dementia

If you choose to make an nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

If a person can be invaded by a personality who isn't theirs, why can't people - I mean people in the mass be invaded by alien personalities.

Los gatos no tienen lugar en una existencia que transcurre de un lado para otro, de una habitación a otra. Necesitan un sitio fijo tanto como una persona que los convierta en suyos.

Obviously, my changing everything into fiction is simply a means of concealing something from myself.

I suddenly saw her quite differently. I saw that she was a person. Not my mother. She had thought it all out. She had wanted to commit suicide. She would never commit suicide. On that night I grew up. Or so I would like to believe.

The truth was, she was becoming more and more uncomfortably conscious not only that the things she said, and a good many of the things she thought, had been taken down off a rack and put on, but that what she really felt was something else again.

What deep insecurity, what inadequacy, does this insistence on other people's inferiority conceal?

If you choose to make a nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

The thing is, people who are indeed frothing mad, if they are in political or religious contexts are not seen as mad. Yet if the same people were in a different context, it would be seen at once. But some people who are crazy drift towards political or religious movements where their craziness will not be seen, and whether they do this consciously or not surely doesn't matter.

We Francji jest Francja, w Ameryce Ameryka, w Niemczech sÄ… Niemcy i nawet w Czechach sÄ… Czechy, a tylko w Polsce jest Polska.

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different... from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.