Quotes About Identity

so i wasn't only afraid of becoming my mother, but a mother.

the definition of the truly foreign locale is one that fosters a piercing and perpetual yearning to go home.

This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen. When I walk down the street, my experience is of looking. Manifest to myself in the ethereal privacy of my head, I grow alarmed when presented with evidence of my public body.

When Harriet was growing up, women were trying to immolate gender stereotypes. These days, you preserved the stereotype, the better not to correspond to it.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

Live what is within you out loud.

God uniquely created your DNA and knit your frame in secret so he could surprise the world. He authored how your heart expresses itself; he was the architect of your smile and the melody of your voice; he made all of your features with the fondest thoughts of only you in mind. He celebrated along with your parents your first smile and watched with affection your first steps.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works. (Psalm 139:14, NKJV)

Hi," Caitlyn said. "Hello." "I'm Caitlyn." Mathilde grinned. "The Wild West girl who rode bareback! Yes, I know. The whole school knows! Can you shoot a gun, too?" Caitlyn's cheeks heated in embarrassment. "Urg," she gurgled, "no.

We don't put much stock in genealogy where I'm from [...] It's assumed that you're kind of a loser if you have to sink to boasting about your family in order to impress people.

Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie.

You must work with the assumption that every teenager secretly worries that she's crazy.

Girls also use online environments to try on personas that don't really match their actual personalities. By posting risqué comments or images that suggest sophistication, girls sometimes conduct digital experiments in parting with childhood.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.