Quotes About Identity

if you don't speak your emotions you serve them, and if you don't tell your story you lose it—or, what might be worse, you get lost inside it. Telling is how we cement details, preserve continuity, stay sane. We say ourselves into being every day, or else.

His current theory is that Sutton lived three separate lives. The one he remembered, the one he told people about, the one that really happened.

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

We can become, in other words, people for whom the romantic or existentialist dream might eventually begin to come at least partially true. But this is not, or not for the most part, something straightforwardly and completely given in baptism and in initial Christian faith.

Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.

Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself. To pass from the soft and airy arcades of the mind to the demands of a graceless body always grasping for one thing or another is in any case a surrender:

It is your disability that makes you unique, deprived of the privileges that you are nevertheless entitled to through your birthright, outside the stereotypes of your social position, in spite of it being part of your very flesh.

This wish to wander, to meet different kinds of people, is there something arrogant about it, something a little frivolous and perverse? Where will she go to make a home for herself when every home seems too sunk in its roots, too predictable

My favorite ethnic group is smart.

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

Without a solid sense of self, individuals will remain spiritually enslaved to the group, even if the social system changes.

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

i am referred to as Alexandrina Victoria. But i do not like the name Alexandrina. From now on i wish to be called Victoria.

The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

My fellow officers find that peculiar but I am rather proud of my eccentricities

When he drew back she said, 'Don't you mind?' 'Mind what?' he whispered. 'My skin. Don't you mind kissing a coloured girl?

Is anyone ever really the same after being pushed through an opening the size of a donut hole only to end up wearing a fez?

The point is, don't lie about who you are, Sloan. Own it in all its sordid, live, loud, and proud way. It might not be what everyone labels correct, especially the women in your life, but at least it's honest.

She's a lesbian Marty. Girls, she likes girls and no amount of frosted eye shadow is going to make her want dick.

But if you feel better about how you present yourself to the world, how you feel about you, inside and out, I don't see the shallow in that.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

Thus all apparent things that appear or exist are empty of any essence, and have only a conceptual or nominal identity. Not the slightest distinction exists between the designation and the nature of things that it symbolizes. For there is a constant coemergence, which cannot be realized by external means.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.