“My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.” PeopleDefinitionsBoxesStuckDefinedBelovedDefiningDefining Myself Author:Wentworth Miller
“I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.” StillsStruggleDefiningParalysisTake ControlBring Me DownDefining Myself Author:Lauren Iungerich
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” PeopleIfsWould BeLiteratureInspiringFantasyAlivePersonalityDiversitySocial JusticeBeing YourselfBlack WomenBlack HistoryBlack Women InspirationalFemale WritersBlack MotivationalDefining Myself Author:Audre Lorde
“With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.” ShouldFeelingsHurtLove IsRiskLove YouGetting HurtInspirational CelebrityDefining Myself Author:Britney Spears
“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” FacesDifficultBlackChallengesFreedomInspiringHistoryMonthsDiversityDefinedAfrican AmericanBeing YourselfBeing RealBlack WomenDefiningBlack HistoryBe True To YourselfBlack History MonthAfrican American WomenBlack History Month InspirationalBlack AmericaAfrican American HistoryBlack History InspirationalDifficult ChallengesAfrican American LoveBlack Women InspirationalAfrican American InspirationalAfrican American History MonthBlack InspirationalAfrican WomenBlack MotivationalConfident WomanBlack FaceDefining Myself Author:Carol Moseley Braun
“I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.” WayDreamEnergyBitsProcessBecomingLet MeDanceDancerDefiningBecoming The BestDefining Myself Book:Push Comes to Shove Source: Push Comes to Shove
“Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.” WayYearsHas BeensRealityMightPastPurposeBlackWhiteJourneyPhotographPsychologicalAbstractFortyBlack And WhiteExistentialDefiningOver The PastDefining Myself Author:Roger Ballen