CURATED COLLECTION

Reinventing Yourself

You are not obligated to remain the person others decided you were — reinvention is always available.

50 quotes found

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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free.

—Harriet TubmanAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To live is to be forever in process, never finished, always transforming.

—Ferreira GullarPoet & Critic

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Our identities are made of multiple affiliations, not a single one.

—Amin MaaloufNovelist

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves?

—Betty FriedanFeminist Writer & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

—Naguib MahfouzNovelist & Writer

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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As if one could choose in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits you.

—Julio CortázarNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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The world is a mirror, reflecting what you are. If you dislike what you see, change yourself.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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We are all different, but we share the human spirit. It is important to work together.

—Stephen HawkingTheoretical Physicist

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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The ancient traditions are the roots of the present and the seeds of the future.

—Sundiata KeitaKing

Medieval ERA • West Africa

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Our stories are our heritage. We must keep them alive.

—Gcina MhlophePlaywright & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Our traditions are precious, but we must adapt.

—Flora NwapaNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Stories are maps. They show us where we've been, and where to go.

—Sia FigielNovelist & Poet

Contemporary ERA • Oceania

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You can be whatever you want to be, just not everything at once.

—Bernardine EvaristoAuthor

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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The things that destroy us are also the things that create us.

—Ayi Kwei ArmahNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The old ways are fading; a new path must be forged for the Māori.

—PapahurihiaProphet

Industrial Age ERA • Oceania

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Children are the guardians of our future, especially our mother tongue.

—ʻInapo FaatauvaaAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Oceania

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It's a long life, and you'll be many people in it.

—Zadie SmithNovelist & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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The harem is not a place. It is a frontier in the mind.

—Fatima MernissiFeminist, Sociologist & Author

Contemporary ERA • North Africa

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We are travelers, and our home is the entire universe.

—Olga TokarczukNovelist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Eastern Europe

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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