Quotes About Identity

To some "housewife" has become a dirty word.

I have come to see that the time-honoured practice of bestowing anonymity on our communities and informants fools few and protects no one - save, perhaps, the anthropologist's own skin.

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

The only way for me to be safe and free was to be - be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.

We bastards are not to blame for any of it.

To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.

She loved them both, of course, but they weren't nearly as interesting as any one thing she might be doing on any day. Her life was the song. Her parents were background music.

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea —e. e. cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may

Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know. Or maybe it was this way only in her family.

When Evan Chance read the bucket list he'd penned when he was twelve years old, he caught a glimpse of the man he'd wanted to be when he grew up. Now, at nearly thirty-five, he knew he was not that man.

Teddy Lamont couldn't be more gay if he turned up wearing rainbows and carrying a pride flag.

sex, cross-dressing

Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I never did look in mirrors anyway, because I disliked myself. No, wait. I disliked my appearance.

But I know that I am not who I was supposed to be, who I could have been, and I know it's because I was too afraid for too long. It made me think about things I never should have.

I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be... this person who's not... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not... Autistic.

We want new clothing, more clothing, pretty clothing, because rather than looking at clothing as something to cover the shame of our nakedness, we view it as a sign of status, a source of happiness, or a way to compete or show off.

The success of a man who dress slow like a woman is narrow.

In the last episode of the Magnificent Steiner he probably turned back into a normal human being. -Wolfgang Grimmer

I was born in a town that was straight out of a fairy tale. Many people died there, and when I walked away, I held hands with my other self. To me it seemed like we were the only two people in the world. Neither one of us possessed a real name.

I was born in a town that was straight out of a fairy tale. Many people died there, and when I walked away, I held hands with my other self. To me it seemed like we were the only two people in the world. Neither one of us possessed a real name. -Johan Liebert

Anche se finalmente aveva trovato un nome, non era rimasto più nessuno che potesse chiamarlo in quel modo. Eppure Johan era un così bel nome.

I'm going to be my own kind of princess -Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)