Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's your name?" "Um..." I don't know why I hesitate. But "Beatrice" just doesn't sound right anymore. "Think about it," he says, a faint smile curling his lips. " You don't get to pick again." A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. "Tris," I say firmly.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.