Quotes About Selfhood

As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our selfhood but to fit us into slots.

This world is not his world; this life his life.

He is both heir and prototype simultaneously of all the geography and climate and biology which sired old Carothers and all the rest of us and our kind, myriad, countless, faceless, even nameless now except himself who fathered himself, intact and complete, contemptuous, as old Carothers must have been, of all blood black white yellow or red, including his own.

Claiming our voice, and our selfhood, is a sacred act.

Que ellos vivan como quieran y yo viviré también como me plazca. No puedo ser sino como soy. No es eso lo que quiero, no, no es eso...

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Keep your identity small.

I don't want to be a creature, shaped by their hands and quickened with their blood. Something made like a doll, from snow and sticks. An assemblage of parts, stranger even than the sluagh.

Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

As if I were any man's idea! As if I exist because a man has an idea of me! As if I will be betrayed by him, lend him my body as an instrument for his idea, to be a mere apparatus of his dead theory. But they are too fussy to be able to act; they are all impotent, they can't take a woman. They come to their own idea every time, and take that. They are like serpents trying to swallow themselves because they are hungry.

They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.

Naw! Mah own mind had tuh be squeezed and crowded out tuh make room for yours in me.

I feel that I have my own personality and I don't want to be typed as anyone else.

Ipseity is essentially just another way to say selfhood or individuality

Pre-birth we are all equals; post-birth we are as we decide.

You know of me only what I choose to tell.

If I exist, I am not another

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

I never really liked being categorized with others. I'd rather be labeled as me. Nothing more, nothing less...

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

Each choose that method which expresses your selfhood best, and condemn no other man because he expresses his Self otherwise.

If there be any further freedom than the one granted by excommunication, perhaps it is the freedom not to exist.

It needs to be free. It was born free. It isn't property.