721 Identity Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins. Amanda de Cadenet

You Else Someone Identity End Begins Where Want Form Blur Worked Your Hard Thing Last

As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to the gender binary. I thought I had to be a proud woman to be a feminist. Then I came to the realization that I can be proud of women without necessarily identifying as one. Amandla Stenberg

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition. Amitava Kumar

Writing Important Has-Been Haunted Feature Identity Mistaken Course Been Province Fiction Which Manner Much Cognition

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog. Amity Gaige

Me Dog Parents Other Several Worst Tricks Paranoid Small Joined Merely Identity Occurred Repertoire Intelligent Behaviors Suspicions Which Whole Each Keep Designed Set

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer. Amor Towles

Life Writing My Life Later Responsibilities Writer Outside Had Advantage Identity Accomplishments Mature Being Children Realm Whole Career Two

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story. Amy Chua

My position here is that conservatives need a realistic approach to immigration that best serves and preserves our country's status and identity as a relatively high-functioning, at least for now, Western and First World nation. That status will not automatically maintain itself. It is fragile. It is precarious and vulnerable to erosion. Amy Wax

Best World Immigration Will First Country Nation Realistic Preserves Conservatives Approach Our Relatively Status Maintain Identity Vulnerable First World Least Erosion Western Itself Precarious Automatically Now Serve Here Need Fragile Position

Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay. Andrew Breitbart

Gay Black Power White Others Battles Out Beats Over Wit Identity Different Hold Groups Media Specific Play Levels

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life. Ang Lee

Life My Life Fighting Something Identity Very Much

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness. Angela Merkel

Unity Our Boost Parcel Only Indispensable Part Part And Parcel Obviously Identity Parts Said Always Integration German Germany Same Want Again Europe European Two Coin Competitiveness

I don't know that I had context for being trans until I moved to Rochester, New York, to pursue my dream of acting, and started going to drag shows. I had never seen a transsexual before, and I didn't yet fully understand my own identity. Angelica Ross

Seen Before Own Dream My Own Pursue Never Had New Know Until Identity Understand Rochester Context York Going Moved New York Being Acting Fully Shows Started Drag

A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that's really important for me, and that's a big part of my self-expression, so I think it's really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn't have that. Angourie Rice

Me Woman Important Big Think Someone Part Identity Self-Expression Sort Huge Huge Part Big Part Being Interesting Really Means Exploring

Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern world by protecting Puerto Rico's identity and simultaneously guaranteeing its relationship with the United States, complete with a common market, common citizenship, common defense, and common currency. Anibal Acevedo Vila

Relationship World Goals Defense Market Complete States Citizenship Only Simultaneously Protecting Identity Alternative Currency Modern Common Modern World Commonwealth Aspirations Rico United United States Puerto Puerto Rico Guaranteeing

Our national identity is so interwoven with football. Ann McKee

National Our Interwoven Football Identity National Identity

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it. Ann Nocenti

You Fool Distance Find Between Know Identity Another Around Always Endlessly Dying Mean Double Fascinating Whole Riff Thing

To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll. Ann Powers

Relationship Business Free Elvis Insane Possibly Corrupt Some Totally Something Colonel Parker Wrong Idea Most Identity Sort Partnerships Rock Rock-N-Roll His Roll Intense Manager Used Certainly Lucrative Ever Extent

Identity is an assemblage of constellations. Anna Deavere Smith

Constellations Identity Assemblage

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth. Anne Lamott

Love Truth God Faith Women Hate Men Men And Women First Ways Mystery Had True True Faith Identity Accept Always Holy

'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride! Antony Starr

Love You Man Ride Prison Sit Action Down Enjoy Assuming Drama Guess Reclaim Say Out Tries Could Identity Him Tracks Sheriff His Years Stolen Gets Story Explosive Who Earlier

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. Ariel Dorfman

Life Game Memory Way Marriages Identity Track Returns Does Always Deaths Same Quite May Tax Unfold Confound Tax Returns Body Such Things Keep Play Things Cards Desire

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music. Ariel Pink

Death Music Myself Soul Youth Old Thought Obsessed Identity Lot Very Younger Really Actually Basically

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity. Art Garfunkel

Singing Since Identity Been Five

Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others. Ashleigh Murray

Celebrate Women Competition Important Think Society Other Others Our Embrace See Share Pieces Identity Encourage Quick Each

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people. Asia Kate Dillon

Me People Sex Gender Other Birth Some Could Freeing Identity Were Very Realization Certainly Assigned

What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about in the late 1500s as a non-gendered word. It applied to all people, regardless of anatomical sex or gender identity. Asia Kate Dillon

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