Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities. — Eminem Copy Share Image
“Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song” — Christine M. Knight Copy Share Image
I am a very firm believer in the Aloha spirit - respect and love for everyone, irrespective of their religion, race, sex,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
It is very difficult for us to establish identity in films. It is not easy to break through your stereotype image from… — Karishma Tanna Copy Share Image
Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender… — Allyson Robinson Copy Share Image
You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take –… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun.… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“By defining society not as an entity made up of individual people but as a collection of cultures--such as white culture, black… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“I had become a girl, then a woman, living in shadow, who could not bear the weight of her own heart -… — Anna Camilleri Copy Share Image
I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The politics of identity is nothing new, certainly on the American right. What was astonishing during the Reagan Dispensation was the development… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The flow of words penned by another human being, describing what you feel. The moment of connectedness, when you know your not… — Elizabeth Novak Copy Share Image
The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I started painting incidentally, but it is just another form of expression. No one can stop me from what I do. When… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
“It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, in… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image