identity Quotes

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.