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  1. Laurie Halse Anderson _ The Impossible Knife of Memory

    The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was.
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  2. Philippa Gregory _ The Women of the Cousins' War:

    If a woman is interested in her own struggle into identity and power, then she will be interested in other women. The lives of these, and other women, show me what a woman can do even without formal power, education, or rights, in a world dominated by men. They are inspirational examples of the strength of the female spirit.
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  3. Kathy Acker _ Pussy, King of the Pirates

    Dreams are manifestations of identities."
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  4. Ron Suskind _ The Way of the World: A Story

    In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling "his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body.
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  5. Gregory Maguire _ How Beautiful the Ordinary:

    I am forty. {...} I know who I am. The treachery of possibilities that threaten to swamp a young guy -- I negotiated them. I'm on the other side. The safe side.Why then do I remember the perilous moments with such fond affection?
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  6. Gary Russell _ The Twilight Streets

    Oh come on, smile. Lisa, Jack... being bisexual is hardly a crime. Best of both worlds, isn't it?'And Ianto pushed her away. 'No,Gwen. No, really it's bloody not. It's the worst of any world because you don't really belong anywhere, because you are never sure of yourself ot those around you. You can't trust in anyone, their motives or their intentions. And because of that, you have, in a world that likes its shiny labels, no true identity."
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
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  8. Virginia Woolf _ The Waves

    I am not one and simple, but complex and many.
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  9. Bob Dylan _ Chronicles: Volume One

    Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."
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  10. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.
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  11. Naomi Novik _ Uprooted

    I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.
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  12. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight toward a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?…If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, is it better to turn away? Stop your ears with wax? Ignore all the perverse glory your heart is screaming at you? Set yourself on the course that will lead you dutifully towards the norm, reasonable hours and regular medical check-ups, stable relationships and steady career advancement the New York Times and brunch on Sunday, all with the promise of being somehow a better person? Or…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
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