“Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
“Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air”
Naomi Wolf
“I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language / religion / government / blood / identity in these makes men of one country.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We could not be alive without identity; it seems that even in a coma, identity is still there.”
Domo Geshe
“É a língua e não o solo que constitui o meio e o lugar de nosso enraizamento num povo, numa nação, numa pátria.”
Fernando Pessoa
“I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it.”
Duop Chak Wuol
