Mary E. Pearson Quotes

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

Every act is an act of self definition.

I want an identity outside of my work.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

One creates oneself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I know what my identity is.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.