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Identity Quotes
"He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
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"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns."
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"The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them."
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"At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said."
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"No, I'm not choosing him or you. I'm choosing me."
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"None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it."
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"Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself."
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"I am not a women that takes anything for granted, I'll lay endlessly With you and talk about meaningful and logical, I'll watch the stars at midnight and the way they twinkle back; to let me know they see me too, I'll wind the window down just to feel the breeze, I'll turn the music up when I love a song, I'll sit with the ocean when I feel lost, I'll cry when my heart hurts & I'll listen to you when yours is hurting too, I know the kind of women I am, and im not shy in showing her to the world."
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"Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved..."
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"We spend so long trying to be what other people want,that when we look in the mirror,we see a stranger."
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"She is Black Girl Excellence. She is Me."
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"It's impossible, he snapped. "Why? "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that."
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"The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not."
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"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer."
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"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."
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"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."
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"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
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"Be different.. be yourself."
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"I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow."
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"The very point that you are not likened by somebody in proof of your authenticity and uniqueness."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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"Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be."
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"I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."
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"The truly fearless think of themselves as normal."
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"I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh."
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"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."
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"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
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"She called me 'my lady, ' she told him in a plaintive voice. 'I don't know who that is. I'm no lady. The last of his fury faded away to be replaced with a quick gleam. He peered under the sheet. 'I can attest to that."
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"Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born."
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"We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone."
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"She wanted to be herself at all costs."
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