Quotes About Identity

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Some things belong only to the people who lived them.

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.

You know, there was a part of me that was so defiant, and a part of me that was so ashamed, and I really couldn't say which was which at any given point in time.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I don't need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.

Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

All at once she was eighteen, a stupid girl with a stupid crush who believed that someone like Will might actually see her as anything more the his best friend's kid sister.

I'm saying if you do what you were made to do, then you'll find the peace you've been looking for. You can't work for it, you know. You just have to rest in it. - Birdie

There was a part of her that cried out, 'Am I good enough yet?' but who was she hoping would answer that question?

People don't always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.

In a world where everyone is trying to be someone else, it's important to remember who you are and what you stand for.

It's a strange feeling to be both famous and unknown at the same time.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they're being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what's behind their eyes.

Before long your fears become adult ones: crushing debts and responsibilities, sick parents and sick kids, the possibility of dying unremembered or unloved. Fears of not being the person you were so certain you'd grow up to be.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

We're Irish, Jake, which means heredity carries us halfway to madness smack out of the womb.

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.