Quotes About Identity

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

All we want, whether we are honeybees, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?"—DERRICK JENSEN, AMERICAN AUTHOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST

Our beliefs about ourselves and about the

To the people in Creede I am intelligent, suspiciously sophisticated and elitist to the point of being absurd. To the people at UC Davis I am quaint, a little slow on the uptake and far too earnest to even believe.

Sometimes I'm afraid the main reason I spend half of my life outdoors is simply because there aren't any mirrors.

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

And even though I knew in my head there's nothing a man can do that a woman can't, I also knew in my heart we can't help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exactly how a woman feels when she has a baby, or an orgasm, or the reasons why she'll fight so hard to be loved, a woman can't know in what way a man satisfies himself, what question he answers for himself, when he looks right at death.

We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live." He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. "We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.

Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

You reminded me who I used to be before the war. I want to be that person again.

Sometimes, like after recently learning about Margot, it is easy to despise him. Other times, though, when we lay in the dark and his uniform is gone, he is just a man who brings me pleasure and comfort. I can almost forget who he is, who we both are. Almost.

No podemos cambiar quienes somos. Tarde o temprano tendremos que enfrentarnos a nosotros mismos.

the names come back to me like a song: Lorch, D'Augny, Neuhoff—

When you are young, you expect the family you were born into to be yours forever.

made the fact that we were Jews undeniable.

You must see yourself as you want others to see you,

People say I'm the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

Let men be men -- and let women be women -- Women competing with men- does not help us -- We have better things to do -- like being mothers.

People always tell me, "Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever." I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic. Except for the boobs.