“She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.”

The Awakening (1899)

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American author 1850–1904

Karl Schroeder (1962) Author. Technology consultant

Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 7 (p. 66).

“He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self — in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

Clare Boothe Luce The Women

Mrs. Morehead, act I
The Women (1936)

“When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

“And in the name of this gospel of freedom, she had imprisoned herself; in the name of "living life honestly," she would go to her death. It was, he supposed, the only way she could make herself feel special.”

Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle

(XIV.4) Del Rey, p. 473
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Source: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Variant: She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Source: Pot Luck

“She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.”

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