Janet Fitch Quotes

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.