"Younger woman says, 'I'm not going to be like my mother. You're maniacs. You're mad.'Yes, [older woman responds] 'I know it. And so you won't be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?"

Identity, Women, Change, Choice

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"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Uniqueness, Self-Discovery, Growth

"She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Identity, Inclusion, Social, Difference

"The image of God is in every human."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, ImageOfGod, Human, Reflection

"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, Approval, Conformity, Society

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Identity, Freedom, Choice, Individual

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Identity, Choice, Conformity, Individual, Life

"I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."

John Green, American Author

Identity, Self-Worth, Care, Truth

"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Identity, Original, Imitation, Authenticity

"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Identity, SelfAcceptance, Society, Acceptance

"Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Identity, Self, Choose, Destination, Define

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

Literature

"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

Reading

"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

Friendship

"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

Greatness

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

Truth

"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

People

"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."

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"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."

"The image of God is in every human."

"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."

"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."

"Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination."

Explore more quotes by Doris Lessing

"Literature is analysis after the event."

"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed."

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."