Quotes About Identity

Science fiction constantly interrogates the limits of identity and the nature of difference. The latter is frequently described through a quasi-allegorical displacement of the alien on to other countries and planets, following a strategy of encounter whereby readers are encouraged to re-examine their self-conceptions as a result of confrontation with the Other, with beings whose culture is rarely explored in its own right, but rather to highlight the markers of difference.

the therapy had indeed been troubling, for she had scratched the surface of her fears, and found beneath it a bottomless pit of anxiety and despair. The life she led was fraught with confusion, and she felt she no longer knew who she was. She remembered who she used to be and what she once wanted, but that was all gone now, and she could envision no future.

If we are incapable of controlling our existence, life loses its meaning, too.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Some people may opt out. Their child turns out to be whatever it is that they find impossible to face—for some, the wrong religion; for some, the wrong sexuality; for some, a drug addict. They close the door. Click. Like in mafia movies: "I have no son. He is dead to me." I have a son and he will never be dead to me.

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the bible meant when they used the words hell and pit ...It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't...It was springtime, for Hitler, in Germany. Anne Lamott

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Only girls wear tights. - Nic responds, "Uh,uh. Superman wears tights.

You've got to wonder what Jesus was like at seventeen," Anne Lamott wrote. "They don't even talk about it in the Bible, he was apparently so awful.

teenagers are almost a different species than the rest of us, particularly in social situations.

In the car, however, I see a stranger. And yet he is a stranger whose every part I know intimately.

We are connected to our children no matter what. They are interwoven into each cell and inseparable from every neuron. They supersede our consciousness, dwell in our every hollow and cavity and recess with our most primitive instincts, deeper even than our identities, deeper even than our selves.

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the Bible meant when they used the words hell and the pit . . . It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't.

Deep down, you know you're him.

Let a man go to the bottom of what he is and believe in that.

autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself.

There are no jokes in Woke World. Or, rather, the whole thing is a joke, which means nothing is funny anymore. You need something to be serious before there can be room for laughter. Nothing is serious in Woke World.

A vegan is actually talking about himself when he talks about animals. It's nothing to do with animals and is all about his personal psychology and issues. There are no vegan animals, that's for sure!

There must be something beyond your existence. Now people endlessly dwell on their own issues and identity. There is nothing beyond that, no higher cause, no greater calling. And that's exactly why they are so depressed, so disenchanted. What could be worse than being your own 'god'? You can be sure no one will ever worship you. What's to worship?

Broken DNA causes genome instability, I wrote, which distracts the Sir2 protein, which changes the epigenome, causing the cells to lose their identity and become sterile while they fixed the damage. Those were the analog scratches on the digital DVDs. Epigenetic changes cause aging.

Vampires must be the least narcissistic creatures. They can't see themselves in the mirror, and they can't take any selfies. Vampires don't belong to Selfie culture. Boo hoo.

When you have no voice, you don't exist

David Sosnowski

It seems symbolic that I can't write my name anymore," she told Mr. Nosy.