Community Quote by Anonymous Download Open image “Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.” — Anonymous ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Education Identity Parent Parenting Writing Written
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a… — Neil McCormick Copy Share Image
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
We all have one authentic and one fictional self, some of us are daring enough to claim and get their way out while others… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves. — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“When it comes to identity we are all constructs. Who we think we are is the result of our upbringing, memories, skill set, knowledge,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image