Quotes About Identity

You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it's marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It's either Gena or my mother or some other person.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman.