Firsts Quote by Erica Jong

“A name is the first and final marker of individual rights, one fixed part of the ever changing human world. A name is the…

— Ai Weiwei

Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

“The self is undone before the impossibility of naming: all the previously known names and essentialist categories representing the world and the self are…

— An Yountae

“Understand that by giving something a name, you own it. I find that by naming it, you give yourself a sense of purpose. Like…

— Charles Mackriel

It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.

— John O'Donohue

“Who can give a man this, his own name?”

— George MacDonald

“Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

When you name yourself, you always name another.

— Bertolt Brecht

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

— William Wycherley

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became…

— Philip Ridley

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

— Learned Hand