#identity

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#balance #confirmation #face #friends #i

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking. ↗

— David Sedaris

#became #day #did #ever #every

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#any #army #back #been #before

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#happy #i #identity #job #journalist

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#creates #cricket #feel #himself #i

...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still, in many respects, is racialized for people of color. You build from that, but you have a grander social vision that transcends it and recognizes the strengths and limitations that are drawn from the particularity of identity. ↗

— Manning Marable

#life

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#attracted #confused #feel #gender #how

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#concept #defining #feminism #gave #gift

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#identity #inferiors #made #must #national