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Quotes About Identity

Mother of otherness, Eat me.
~ Sylvia Plath
She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
~ George R. R. Martin
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
~ Ziggy Marley
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
~ Angela Carter, Wise Children
My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.
~ Marie Lu
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
~ Frantz Fanon
All that I am my mother made me.
~ John Quincy Adams
I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
~ Calamity Jane
I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'
~ Chris Hemsworth
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
~ Francois Gautier
You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
~ Mariska Hargitay
a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
~ Barbara Holland
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
~ Jennifer Esposito
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
~ Chazz Palminteri
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
~ Hoagy Carmichael
I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
~ Thom Yorke
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.
~ Robert Bloch
I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.
~ Michael Caine