Quotes About Identity

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!

I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Everyone hates the mob, but everyone belongs to it

The explosion of the grenade in his dug-out made him take leave of the Greco-Latin-Christian civilized world. When he regained consciousness he was on the other side... among the Communists.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I don't want to be known for my face. I want to be known for my work.

But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

He's part me and part Clan, and so is Ura. Or rather, she's part Oda and part that man who killed her baby.

Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is now more polarized based on identity.

Just as iGen'ers and Millennials are avoiding institutions such as religion and marriage, more and more of them are refusing to identify with the major political parties.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

You have named him, not I.

Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus.

We do not exist through ourselves alone but through the environment that shaped us.

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.

To be a green and juicy crone comes from having lived long enough to be deeply rooted in wholehearted involvements, of living a personally meaningful life, however unique, feminist, or traditional it may appear to others. It has to do with knowing who we are inside and believing that what we are doing is a true reflection or expression of our genuine self. It is having what Margaret Mead called PMZ, or postmenopausal zest for the life you have.

Es más, existen muchas "diosas" en un sola mujer. Cuanto más complicada es ésta, más probable es que haya muchas "diosas" activas en ella. Y lo que es satisfactorio para una parte de sí misma puede ser irrelevante para otra parte.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born débutante from Boston. He would like to have been anybody except Andy Warhol.

Have you ever noticed a certain type of man who always wants to go along with his wife to pick out her clothes? I've always thought that's because he wants to wear them himself. Truman Capote on Warhol

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.