Quotes About Identity

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm.

Rather, I'm the kind of person who makes watercolors of sunsets in the summer while drinking cocktails on my roof, who reads a book a week and goes to French movies. My friends often cite my life as being an inspiration to them, and I have quite rigorously assembled something that looks really good from the outside. But that performance has always been a stark contrast to how I feel about myself.

I want my body to look good to me first and to the rest of the world second. I want to be someone whom I'd aspire to be if I were another woman or whom I would desire if I were a man. But I also want to reach some level of acceptance of the body I have, regardless of my weight.

Tell me how you are." "I'm fine, Mother." "No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.

You'll know who you are when you start losing things,' Doris said.

For the first time, her singularity, the fact that she felt different from every person she knew, made sense to her, and she realized that no matter where she went in the world, she would have a point of view that no one else could possibly have.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read.

It all made me realize I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure they belonged. There was no one right way to fit in--it seemed like everyone was finding their own place, even if that place was on the edge of things. Still, there had to be ways to make it easier.

GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.

Maar selfs in ons andersgeit soek ons ander mense wat op min of meer dieselfde manier as ons anders is. Ons bly nou eenmaal kuddediere.

I have never been beautiful, not even when I was young, when most people have some brief flowering. I never had such a flowering. I was always dull and plain. I remain dull and plain.

You don't know nothing about me. Or the life I've had. You're so quick to judge, like all the other women. Women are the worst, you know. Worse than men. I think it's because, secretly, they all know in their hearts they could be me.

It's how it all begins. "You Jews" this, "you Jews" that. And when you have lumped all Jews together, you can justify anything you do to them. There are no longer good Jews, bad Jews, clever Jews, stupid Jews, old Jews, young Jews. There are just Jews. But I am a German, just like you, whether you like it or not.

What is it about the human face that it should be the most memorable thing in existence and yet its atoms are the quickest to disperse?

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

But if we create our own Shakespeare, it is at least as true that the Shakespeare we create is a Shakespeare that has, to a certain extent, created us.

He is not my father." "So said every unhappy daughter.

I'm too much a man for hysterics." Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse. I have to know what that is.

We're all the same inside the cage. When they put the collars on us.