Quotes About Identity

We don't choose our parents. And their mistakes aren't our own. You are what you make yourself—don't ever forget that.

I am more than a face and a body. I am Hira. But no one wishes to know Hira.

Flaws make us who we are, Ivy. Without them, we might as well be made of plas, featureless and indistinct. Never ever be ashamed of your flaws.

Naasir wasn't dark inside . . . but he was alone. The only one of his kind in the entire world. He had friends, had family, but he had no one who was like him. Mating wouldn't change that, but it would give him a person who belonged to him just as much as he belonged to her. And maybe one day, they'd have a cub and there would be another like him in the world.

Attracted to one of the Silent? His mouth set in a grim line. He'd cut off his own balls before he accepted that.

In another life, she could've been a professor. In this life, she'd been a rich man's wife. Now, she was just bones.

I might be a self-diagnosed sociopath with a mask for every occasion, but I wasn't a monster.

My father used to say I was useless, that I'd never make anything of myself. Now every day someone finds a way to tell me I'm brilliant." "Does that cause mental dissonance?" "If you mean confusion, then no. It's just...it's strange. Like the me that people know is skin suit that I wear for the rest of the world.

So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted.

A Young Candy Daughter I'm

A Raggy Dog, a Shaggy Dog In

I had put on beauty as a hermit crab puts on a discarded shell.

which I draw is European. Even the form in which I write is European. Arguably, one of the most familiar memes of science fiction is that of going to foreign countries and colonizing the natives, and as I've said elsewhere, for many of us, that's not a thrilling adventure story; it's non-fiction, and we are on the wrong side of the strange-looking ship that appears out of nowhere.

How do I know anything? How is it that my arms stretched out in front of me are so pale? How to I even know that they should be brown like riverbank mud, as they were when I was many goddesses with many worshippers, ruling in lands on the other side of a great, salty ocean? I used to be many, but now we are one, all squeezed together, many necks in one coffle.

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back... The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time...

We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.

She calls herself Fleet 'cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?" "British Colombia?" He looked sad. "No, Before Crack.

a woman who seems to be a passive character in major portions of the Ramayana, following her husband through thick and thin, insistent in her demand for the suvarnamrig, finally emerges as a strong woman with a will of her own. However, that is not what she is worshipped for.

It is the internal battles that Rama has to fight that interest me now, and there are many. Sadly, he loses the most important battle of all, the battle to be the person that he wants to be, irrespective of what his cosmic and public destinies have in store for him. It is this terrible dislocation of the self that gives rise to his anxieties about Sita and his treatment of her.

And Laura raised the microphone and said, "Hello, everybody, I'm C.C's daughter.

Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous, in a roundabout fashion.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.