We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and…

“Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along…

— Rachel Simon

It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into…

— Carrie Brownstein

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of…

— Lauren Oliver

“Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.”

— Penelope Lively

“The elderly are spooky when they degenerate into reflections of their younger selves. They say things that make sense on some grammatical level, but…

— Scott Adams

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of…

— Gordon Livingston

“men and women have two ages: a chronological age, and an emotional age they feel inside. (I’ll explore this subject in more detail in…

— Martin Lindstrom

There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

— Ella Purnell

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

— Isabella Blow

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

— RuPaul

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,…

— Paul Di Filippo

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with…

— Orlando Figes

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

— Richard Linklater