Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

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 think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

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.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.