Quotes About Identity

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Neither woman nor man lives by work or love alone.... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

I'm not Rihanna. I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug, not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

I don't see myself as famous I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

I was once afraid of people saying, Who does she think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say, This is who I am...

I swear sometimes being a man is not easy. Everlasting love from a few. Misunderstood by many.

Scientists have discovered that the longer people stay married, the more they begin to look alike. After 25 years you better start putting name tags in your underwear.

I won't push myself to the person who only see me as nobody.

When you lose a best friend, it's worse then breaking up with a boyfriend. Because you lose more than a heart, you lose a little bit of yourself.

Forgetting the past is forgetting our roots and our basic structure.

Tonight I had a massive think, I've realised I seriously don't fit in with my friendship group. As sad as it is, I just really really don't.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us

Everyone has two faces but often we see only one side of them so never judge anyone by there looks because the truth might surprised you!

Wishing you a very warm welcome to the womanhood!