Quotes About Identity

It's a mystery to me why extraordinary young women insist that they're normal.

I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright. I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass.

todo es tan garciamarqueciano que sospecho que él no existió...

If you let it be known that you are a poet, you will be sent to the police station.

Jest co? okrutnego w tych splotach okoliczno?ci, które nazywamy krajami i które – jak si? nam wmawia – s? czym? nam bliskim, co powinni?my kocha? ca?? dusz? i chroni?, nawet za cen? ?ycia.

La desigualdad es esa manera tan absolutamente natural en que una empresaria colombiana, un profesor mexicano, un hacendado salvadoreño dicen María sírvenos el café.

Mo?e i prawda, ?e postawa, jak? zajmuje ka?dy z nas wobec tego, co ogromne, co zdaje si? nienaruszalne, niewiele mówi. Ale przynajmniej wyja?nia co? w tak drobnej kwestii, jak pytanie o to, kim, do diab?a, jestem.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

Another problem with people who fail to examine themselves is that they often prove all too easily influenced.

You can remember when you look at them." "Remember?" "Aurelia," he says. "To speak the name is to make live again.

We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore.

But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one's own.

I have no intention of being a footnote in someone else's life." [on being a war correspondent during WWII]

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

The unique must be fulfilled.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Losing one's mind is surely like losing one's virginity. Lose a little, lose a lot.

It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.

In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).

I don't change. It's not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn't real." Indicating