Maria Shriver Quotes

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I had to figure out at 61 years of age: 'Holy moly! Who am I?'

Every human being goes through a period of time in their life where they feel like they've lost who they are, and they're trying to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

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.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

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

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

I've never, ever labeled myself.