Quotes About Selfhood

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

No mater what I wear - whether my choice or not- I guarantee I will be me.

They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.

I can do without anybody. I have my own soul: my own spark of divine fire.

I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

to be ME, Merewyn. These

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.

Sooner or later everybody demands that I be what they want me to be, and now you're doing it.

When the creature takes full possession of the liberty it has received it becomes a person.

I don't want to be a reasonable facsimile of anyone.

I hated being compared to anybody.

I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

What could be more alien to the they, lost in the manifold 'world' of its concern, than the Self which has been individualized down to itself in uncanniness and been thrown in the nothing?

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy.

I can't be your ghost right now. I need to exist

We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.

Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.