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Identity Quotes
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
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"I'm a writer first and a woman after."
27
"I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat."
21
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
19
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
7
"I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille."
7
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
6
"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."
6
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
5
"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity."
5
"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
5
"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."
5
"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"
5
"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."
4
"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
4
"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."
4
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
4
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
4
"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
3
"Each of us has our own unique traits, but we need them to fulfil our destiny."
3
"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
3
"I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals."
3
"You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"Y-yes, Mr. D."Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" You're a god."Yes, child."A god. You."
3
"Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull-which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness. . . . The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it."
3
"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
3
"I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh."
2
"Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't."
2
"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
2
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
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