Quotes About Identity

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.