Ann Romney Quotes

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

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.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

I was not a fan. Moreover, I reveled in not being a fan, as though not being able to tolerate Robin Williams was one of the things by which I defined myself.

This game doesn't define who I am as a person.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named