625 quotes found
“Time alone helps us to remember who we are.”
“You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.”
“After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.”
“If originality is a sense of novelty and freshness then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We construct a self-portrait, relying on existing objects books, quotes ...”
“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings in the va...”
“Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel”
“The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feels invisible in a public sense precisely because her physical being - her visibility - figures so ...”
“And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betra...”
“Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.”
“When I said, I am my mother, but Im not, I was saying my path would be my own.”
“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”
“Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.”
“I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. Im not interested in controlling others but Im invested in strict self-governance. This is why I dont do many face-to-face interviews...”
“I'll never have to give an account for not being more like my favorite celebrity, that shining star in my chosen field or anybody else. And at the end of my life, the question I never want to be as...”
“The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those...”
“This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.”
“It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.”
“Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself”
“How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll have to test me out." "You have my info," she says. "I'll think about it." "Rain," I s...”
“You are not who you think you are.”
