“If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.” IfsWayKindHappensBornInformationIdentityBirthPercentStealing Author:Frank Abagnale
“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.” ThinkingArtSelfAgeFormLyingTermSupportGenerationsGroupsConditionsIdentityBirthFairsPressureJewPunishmentPassingFamiliarPassingsTemptationOrganizedPretendingComing OutClosetsEscapingAnti SemitismAgeism Author:Gloria Steinem
“When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.” WorldHeartEnoughPainJoyFallIdentityBirthOceanEmptyEmbraceBirth And DeathRise And FallJoy And Pain Author:Jack Kornfield
“We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.” HumansSelfCultureHuman BeingsConsciousnessWrittenIdentityPlanetsExpressionBirthToolsCaringIntellectSexualityRecognitionDimensionsPsychedelicSelf ExpressionPsychedelic ExperienceNational Identity Author:Terence McKenna
“After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.” NightWaterDarkLossTalkingDangerousIdentityBabyMonthsBirthAccountsMotherhoodDesperateThought ProvokingPassagesEntertainingProvokingAbsorbingHaving A BabyDark NightOpinionatedMoodyHilarity Author:Lydia Davis
“Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again” WorldBodyFormLostLeftForceFireIdentityObjectsColdBirthFlamesVisibleEmbersSluggish Author:Nicholas Sparks
“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine” IfsTryingDifferentRealSelfIdentityBirthFitWalkingAbandonRest Of Your LifeArmorBovineGoing Bovine Author:Libba Bray
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” LifeGivingHumansSpiritualMotherBornHuman BeingsIdentityBirthConvictionCholeraOne Hundred Years Of SolitudeBirth Life Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.” PersonsMadeEnoughIdentityBirthImmigrationDataDriversAccurateDocumentsLicensePresentingCertificatesBirth CertificateVerificationBiometrics Author:Bob Dole
“Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.” WayMayDoePlayBodyDesireGamesMemoriesIdentityReturnBirthTaxesTrackCardsManageBureaucracyVisaTax ReturnsExpulsion Book:Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile Source: Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile