Quotes About Identity

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

American Sign Language was her language, her birthright, not some subpar substitute for English.

Robert pointed at Lacey and then made the sign for "hearing," but instead of making it at his mouth, he made it at his forehead. It was a sign given to Deaf people who acted like hearing people. It wasn't a compliment.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

No, Grace, it's not 'Miss Calhoun.'" Daniel had heard her say those words many times. They'd always set his teeth on edge. "It's Mrs. Reeves." Daniel added with angry triumph, "And guess what? I'm calling you Grace and the boys are calling you Ma.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

In every girls life there will always be those three guys...the one she loves, the one she hates, and the one she cant get enough of...and in the end...they're all the same guy.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face .... turned me over and said. Look ... twins!

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

I think, therefore I'm single.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.