Quotes About Identity

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

I like being able to be a man.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

Come on, man, I got a full beard!

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.