Quotes About Identity

He smiled. "Would it help if I told you I'm a gentleman?" "No." She replied and lifted her chin slightly. "How about my…lineage?" "I'm American. We don't do lineage.

Some men fall in love with a woman, Some women fall in love with a man, Some men fall in love with another man, Some women fall in love with another woman - But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland. - Shetland

Writers give readers courage – the courage to be utterly your complete and complex self. (In reference to Audre Lorde)

More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?

I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

It isn't a perfect America and it isn't run right, but it still belongs to us. As

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

There's a lot you can do with a name like Amelia. You can play with it, sure, is what you think I'm going to say. Make it cute (Amy), or cuter (Millie), complaining (Meelie), or French, I guess, like the movie (Amélie). You can step right into that name, is what I mean, and walk around. Swim with it or spill it on your shirt. Whisper it over like a sad, soft ache, or bark it out aloud like a mad, manic message: camellia, come heee-re, a-million, ah murder you, ye-eah.

She left behind her giant M, she's not getting my cabinet" -Toby

The first birthday is the key to identity.

Bindy Mackenzie talks like a horse.

She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...] My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed. Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

Ya veremos más adelante que la propia organización del Cerebro Humano es un modelo de la Lattice. Pero este modelo todavía no llega a ser idéntico al territorio que quiere representar. Únicamente cuando nos convertimos en la Lattice misma, estaremos en posibilidad de percibir la Realidad tal como existe y tal como es en sí. Esta

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

Being beautiful, was that for men?' 'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.

But I had only known the absurd, and I think that made me profoundly different from them

I only know the stony plain, wandering, and the gradual loss of hope. I am the sterile offspring of a race about which I know nothing, not even whether it has become extinct. Perhaps, somewhere humanity is flourishing under the stars, unaware that a daughter of its blood is ending her days in silence. There is nothing we can do about it.

One of the first tasks a writer faces is the need to form an ethos, a way of being in the world, that permits the writer to create and present to the world a dynamic speaking and writing self.

I am a woman above everything else.