"Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual."

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"Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual."

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"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

"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

"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Identity, Appearance, Truth, Perception

"Ay every inch a king."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Identity, Power, Truth, Life, Inspirational

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"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."

Being

"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."

Art

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."

Experience

"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain."

Life

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."

Education

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

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"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."

"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."

"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."

"Ay every inch a king."

Explore more quotes by Rita Mae Brown

"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being."

"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."

"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain."

"Writers will happen in the best of families."

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."

"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."