Quotes About Identity

C'est très bizarre les noms. Parfois on ne connaît rien d'eux et on les dit sans cesse.

C'est un peu comme les êtres au fond, ceux justement que l'on croise durant des années, mais qu'on ne connaît jamais, et qui se révèlent un jour, sous nos yeux, comme jamais on ne les aurait crus capables d'être.

Je suis l'égout, Brodeck. Je ne suis pas le prêtre, je suis l'homme-égout.

Parfois, on aime ses propres cicatrices.

Les hommes sont parfois si maladroits qu'on les prend pour le contraire de ce qu'ils sont vraiment.

She couldn't see the obvious lines of definition, that the female identity could not allow itself to be invaded, perverted, and compromised by brutish men - alien spirits really - whose sole purpose was to inject foreign matter in women and upon withdrawal take away bits of their souls. Men put in and took out, like giant mosquitoes.

Des années après que mon frère avait déserté ma chambre, après avoir mis en terre tous ceux qui m'étaient chers, j'offrai enfin à Simon la sépulture à laquelle il n'avait jamais eu droit. Il allait y dormir, en compagnie des enfants qui avaient connu son destin, sur cette page portant sa photo, ses dates si rapprochées et son nom, dont l'orthographe différait si peu du mien. Ce livre serait sa tombe.

Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and that like all human beings, they are all different. How different, though? Different better, or different worse? Such basic questions underlie whether people are willing to accept outsiders in their midst

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You have to name it to claim it

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked. "No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

When I was born it was Simon who they'd put once more into his arms, the dream of a child he could mold in his own image. It certainly wasn't me, a half-baked attempt at life, a rough sketch showing no familiar traits whatsoever.

Gender and sexual behaviour [are] things that are neither individually intended nor biologically determined, but culturally embedded; pressured […] before birth, a child is already treated as gendered […]. If gender is performed and imposed by reiteration – "citationality" – the imposition is violent, precisely because no "natural" reality or truth supports it.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

In his heart he knows first isn't touching a door knob, or getting to sit in the front row seat by the window, or making it up to the road before everybody else. First is something deep down inside you that you know and feel and nobody can take away from you

Oh, todos somos complicados. Cada príncipe es diez por ciento nerd. Nadie está libre de nerd. No funciona de esa manera. Pero todos somos hermosos, cada uno de nosotros

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Of course everyone's a person. But sometimes we act as if people were only labels. Like deaf, or blind, or lame. We forget about the person and only see the word.

Your body and your mind are, together, your primary country of allegiance. As a feminist, you must know - and know how to defend - your country and its boundaries.

still behave as if they've been "colonized.

The older you get the more you realize that fashion and a sense of style are about expressing yourself. It should be creative and empowering and fun.

Comradeship arises from the mirrorage stage of vortex void into symbolic self.

Vloge, ki jih igramo, in maske, za katerimi se skrivamo, uporabljamo zato, da se nam ne bi bilo treba ukvarjati s seboj in s svojimi pomanjkljivostmi.