Quotes About Identity

To see yourself on camera is not a natural thing, a thing no normal person is comfortable with; for it shows us as others see us, not as who we believe we really are.

The first thought was this: that he was a foolish old man, because all his life he'd been looking for something and it was only when Anna joined him in the bar that evening that he realized that home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made from the memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you.

All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.

Home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made of memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

I am a Roman citizen.

The spirit is the true self.

His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.

I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?

Ik denk dat mama zich een gast heeft gevoeld in het leven. Ze deed altijd alsof het haar niets aanging, het leven, alsof het niet van haar was. Alsof ze er toevallig in terecht was gekomen, zoals je een huis binnen kan lopen wanneer je je in het adres hebt vergist, en dan per ongeluk in dat huis blijft hangen. Buiten stroomt het van de regen en je hebt geen paraplu bij je.

It is, perhaps, part of the human condition that children, as they grow to adulthood, must disentangle themselves from who their parents dreamt they might be, in order to figure out who they really are or hope to be. For

from ages seven through thirteen I felt a kind of age-loyalty to characters [ Out of the Garden ].

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

A divorce is like an amputation, you survive but there's less of you.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?