Mary E. Pearson Quotes

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.