Quotes About Identity

We are what we've been so far.

We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

I didn't think it was such a hot idea to encourage kids to believe they led movie-star lives, even for a night.

Your hair is your helmet- wear it well.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

Be what you are.

When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.

Never let a man determine the woman you want to be.

Seriously, what would you prefer? To stand out from everyone else, or disappear in the crowd? Because I call the latter 'sheep.

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.

All is as we are.

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.

Sometimes you're the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.

Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

Take your ego out of your story.

Whatever is what you are creating is what creates you.

Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life.

How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round, While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?

… this is my first language." {on Writing}

we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.