Quotes About Identity

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Let me get this straight," Eli said, as if trying to be calm even though I could tell he was upset. "Instead of returning to your own body, you swapped with my sister?" "Yes." "So while I was waiting for you to wake up, holding your hand and saying...well, things I would never say to my sister...it was her and not you?" "Um...yeah.

Just letting readers know that I have written some works under Linda Chaffee Taylor (Chaffee was my maiden name, and that is where you will find my main profile) and Linda K. Taylor (middle initial). I can't figure out how to get Goodreads to combine, but if you want to find all my books, go to the author profile for Linda Chaffee Taylor. And thanks for reading and supporting.

Mon livre, pour exister, avait mangé d'autres livres.

In the new era of identity politics, Moore became the wrong kind of woman with whom to identify. Little did Rich and her adherents imagine in the 1970s and '80s that the fatherless Moore had been reared by lesbians and educated by feminists.

The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we're all sort of working to a script, a collective idea of what needs to happen next.

Your true value doesn't come from the wonderful things you do, the children you raise, or the business you run. You are valuable because you exist.

I can't go to another country, Salva thought. If I do, my family will never find me.

We can't, little cricket. It is against the law to fly this flag - even to put up a picture of it. Korea is part of the Japanese Empire now. But someday this will be our own country once more. Your own country.

We still spoke Korean at home, but on the streets we always had to speak Japanese.

It appals us that the West can desire, extract and claim ownership of our ways of knowing, our imagery, the things we create and produce, and then simultaneously reject the people who created and developed those ideas and seek to deny them further opportunities to be creators of their own culture and own nations.

The challenge always is to demystify, to decolonize.

Western education precludes us from writing or speaking from a 'real' and authentic indigenous position

research', is probably one of the dirtiest words in the Indigenous world's vocabulary

One day many years later you will ask her if she wishes you were straight. She will hesitate, then say,"I love you just the way you are." You will never forget that.

Plath was a feminist, in a broad sense of the term: she never undervalued herself or her work. She insisted that she be recognized as the talented writer she was even while her children were infants and she was spending more time as a mother and a wife than as a writer.

I wasn't anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles and everybody would see there wasn't anything there, just a vile mess. And I was afraid that maybe the rot inside me would break out in sores and warts, screaming: 'traitor, sinner, imposter.'" Part

The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.

We are the white-eyed, the red-eyed, the eyeless, with full wings, with crumpled vestigial wings. We perceive the buzz of fluorescence you call quiet, its flicker you call light. The chemical stream of your midafternoon banana sings behind our mouthparts. We are the tested.

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Having multiple personalities is the only way I can justify talking to myself.