“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.” ThinkingSelfFactsMotherOpportunityPleasureCasesAchieveIdentitySelf WorthBitterDevelopingReceivingSense Of SelfHousewife Author:Irena Klepfisz
“One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.” SelfMightGoalDecisionAchieveIdentityTasksResponseMake SenseRangeWho We AreJustifyAdolescenceClarification Author:Terri E Apter
“The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?” DoePoliticalAchieveIdentityRelationPhotographPertinent Author:Victor Burgin
“The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.” IfsKindArtAbleSexRealizingAbilityRolesPlansAchieveMovementIdentityThousandPercentCommitmentBlameDivorceMotherhoodProfessionFemininePermitForbiddenLifelongObsoleteMystiqueFeminine Mystique Author:Betty Friedan
“It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.” ImportantFilmPoliticalLosesIssuesFocusAchieveIdentityAuthorityIdentification Author:Elia Suleiman
“Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.” MindAchieveIdentityObjectsColorPureWaveConcentrationCrystalsSameness Author:Patanjali