"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Identity, Memory, Past, Truth

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Identity, Memory, Life, Editing, Truth

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Womanhood, Strength, Pride

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Identity, Self, Reflection, Perception, Life

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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

Care

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

Reality

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

Reflection

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

Man

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

Judgment

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."

Advice

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Explore more quotes by Gertrude Stein

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

"It is very easy to love alone."

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."