Ellen Hopkins Quotes

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

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

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

How would I know which one I was?

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

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'