“If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
“[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.”
Susan Faludi
“It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.”
Shelby Steele
“The biggest thing is that our team was really young. We needed a little time to forge our own identity. We had to figure out everyone?s role and how this was going to fit together.”
Laura Halldorson
“The founding fathers added the propositional dimension to American identity at the time of the Revolution. How else were they going to justify themselves in rebelling against the British monarchy?”
Samuel P. Huntington
“The goal from the first was to create a reliable identity card for the first time in this country's history. How can you run elections if you can't even identify most of your electorate? We had a situation in the past where people would go to a government office and get four, five, six identity documents under different names.”
Rosemond Pradel