Quotes About Identity

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

I was still rooting for Notre Dame.It's like there's the cultural Catholic experience.

Every experience that you go through kinda shapes who you are.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.