Quotes About Identity

I've told you the truth and my name isn't Woman, it's Tally.' 'I've never heard the name Tally before. That's not a name.' A glint touched his dark eyes, something secret and perverse and then the corner of his mouth lifted, the closest thing she'd seen to a smile yet. 'I shall call you Woman.

He was beautiful, but he was what he was. A man.

There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

First of all, a soul is not something that you have. It is what you are.

There is no need to justify your existence. You do not need to write or preach to justify yourselves, for instance. Being is its own justification.

You would be much better off in reading this book if you asked yourself who you are, rather than asked who I am, for you cannot understand what I am unless you understand the nature of personality and the characteristics of consciousness.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

Greta coined the phrase, "You are who you eat with.

History is what people want to remember.

She could feel the emotion in the place pressing up against the walls, all eyes alert, hearts beating as one, the sense that everyone there was part of something bigger than themselves. That was a powerful emotion. It was the emotion that the Third Reich relied on. It was the kind of emotion that could move mountains.

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Annie colors me in, makes me real.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

In spite of honest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

The Italians arrived with a strong musical tradition; they also had their faith. But food was their cultural touchstone, their way of defying the critics, of tolerating the slurs and all of the other injustices. It was their way of being Italian.

"Human cloning would not lead to identical souls, because only God can create a soul," a panel set up by Pope John Paul has concluded. They also took care of a couple other things that were burning issues: Apparently, Trix are indeed for kids.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.