Quotes About Identity

I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.

My Maria on stage definitely is a real natural part of who I am, but obviously I can't walk around as that girl. You know what I mean? It's definitely an alter ego, but it is part of who I am, it is who I am, it is my life.

My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

My brother and I thought we were Donny and Marie, without the talent.

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.

I definitely was not out as a marine. The 'don't ask, don't tell' policy was still in effect, and the people around me did not seem to be open to the idea to begin with.

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.

Having grown up quite shy and quiet, it's important that I mark out who I am in the world through my work.

My parentage set me up to want to make a life of my own in the arts, but also contributed to my feeling a certain amount of pressure, especially in my early years, to figure out who I was and how to make my own mark.

The reason for the real name policy is Mark Zuckerberg wants to make another dollar.

Mini-skirts, Prada and Agnes B are for New York and L.A. Washington is more America's equivalent of Marks & Spencer.

OMG, I am a married woman!

People often ask whether marriage has changed me. I didn't marry because I had to change.

I always assumed I'd marry a black woman.

What is one China? You have to tell me what one China looks like. If a girl is to marry into another family, you have to tell her what that family is like.

It's not just about being free to marry who you want, you now want to have men using women's bathrooms.

As an Asian man in the industry, you had to know martial arts.

I guess I wouldn't want to be rich. you'd never be sure if people liked you for what you were or what you had.--Tellie

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit! Sophie said. I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!