Quotes About Identity

Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me.

What would become of me if I was never truly seen again?" - Joanna

You want more money so that you can have more freedom to be yourself without worrying about the money. Likewise, you don't want more money to boost your self-esteem. You want more money as an expression of your self-esteem, of valuing your life energy.

People in industrialized nations used to be called "citizens." Now we are "consumers"—which means (according to the dictionary definition of "consume") people who "use up," "waste," "destroy," and "squander.

We take our identity and our self-worth from our jobs.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

One's name should always arrive slightly ahead of one's person,

Migration is the story of my body

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

Queers make the best monks.

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak' Marna laughed mirthlessly. 'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.

We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.

We Russians are slaves because we are unable to free ourselves and become citizens rather than subjects.' Alexander Herzen, (1812–1870)

Human. Tech. I don't choose sides GRID, I am the bridge between the. I am a Cyborg!

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.

My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn't the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.

Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face and her face. Maybe it's the difference between how the moon looks in the sky and how it contorts when a mayfly travels across the pond.

Before this other stone appeared, my mother's stone was still my mother because of the absence around her. The appearance of the new stone and the likeness to her stone implied my mother was a stone too, that my mother was buried under the stone too.