Quotes About Identity

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

Women" he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

But if Grant doesn't like you for who you are, then he's not worth it.

after a few centuries, the new pharaohs saw our kind as a threat instead of an asset. Too many of us existed. Had we wanted to, we could have challenged the pharaoh's armies. Pharaoh Mentuhotep the Second changed our name to the Setites, followers of the god Set, god of chaos, mischief, and evil.

Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that.

They whisper: no little man from Customs and Immigration stands at the doors of memory or imagination demanding to see your passport. No arts bureaucrat or ComLit satrap can stamp OzLit, CanLit, FemLit, MigrantLit, or Displaced Person on your visa.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

needed to be wanted. I couldn't go on without being wanted. And I couldn't stop thinking about that little bitch at the restaurant. I used to be that woman, I thought. I used to be the one who turned heads. Now…Christ…I was becoming invisible.

The claim for tolerance, based on the notion that transgenderism in all its forms is a form of gender resistance, is alluring but false. Instead, transgenderism reduces gender resistance to wardrobes, hormones, surgery, and posturing— anything but real sexual equality.

A man who decides to call himself a woman is not giving up his privilege. He is simply using it in a more insidious way.

There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just things missing like where or who you are, but nothing. The fact of being alive has no substance. No awareness of skin and bone, the trap inside the skull. For these split seconds you hover in the sky like Icarus. Then you remember

Friedrich desiderò ardentemente Clara, a prescindere dal suo sesso. Prima ancora di sapere cos'era, chi era, sapeva quello che sarebbe stata: la più grande pianista che lui potesse plasmare

You are created in God's image.

That girl peering back at me from the water was me, just me. The real me. Not the other versions I tried to be to win anyone over. I took a breath and exhaled. I forgave myself for my prior judgments of not being good enough to be just who I was. The truth was I was just doing the best I could with what I knew at the time. But now I knew better.

For them, work is a way to afford life, but not a definition of who you are.

My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief return to their real lives in which they were their mamas' treasures instead of the dull, easily bullied children they impersonated at school.

Just the self-assurance that God created you exactly like you are and loves you just the way you are.

You're a photographer, for Pete's sake. You need a photo of yourself front and center." "Well, yes, but..." A deep sigh followed on my end. How could I explain that I hated photos of myself?

the self-assurance that God created you exactly like you are and loves you just the way you are.

De pronto ella sintió ganas de ser otra persona.