Identity Quote by Lisa Firestone

“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person…

— Steven D. Levitt

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

— Dorothy West

“When people have awful ideas about your identity, that's just the way it will stay no matter what you do.”

— Matthew Quick

“When we latch on to an identity, it’s easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of…

— Steve Hagen

“Negative identity is a phenomenon whereby you define yourself by what you are not. This has enormous advantages, especially in terms of the hardening…

— Morris Berman

“Identity claims are either directed toward others or directed at the self, and both kinds have their own psychological functions.”

— Sam Gosling

“Your real personality identity is not an option, it is the foundation for your happiness and health.”

— Diana Dentinger

“Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.”

— Gregory David Roberts

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

— Sebastian Faulks

“We all take on identities that are not true to ourselves. Sometimes we choose to become what the world expects to see of us,…

— Kieran Shields

“Enmity shapes our consciousness and identity.”

— Karen Armstrong

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.

— Jonathan W. Galassi