Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.
My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.
In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
Materialism is an identity crisis.
The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.
My friend Ronald Gottesman says. . . that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
. . . it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of the brand. I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root. So through essays and short stories I began exploring some of these things.
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.