“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself…”

— Jennifer Haigh

Source: Faith

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Novelist 1968

Nigel Benn (1964) British boxer

Reflecting on the troubling times in the past http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/my_childhood/episode04.shtml

“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”

Wendy Mass book Every Soul a Star

Source: Every Soul a Star

“I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad?”

Nick Jonas (1992) American singer

Song Who I Am

“I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.”

Joanna Russ book The Female Man

Part 9, Chapter 4 (p. 206)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Context: Remember: I didn’t and don’t want to be a “feminine” version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.
What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humphrey Bogart?

“I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.”

William Shatner (1931) Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author, and film director

“[If I had literally heard the voice of Jesus] I'd check myself in to see a psychiatrist. I don't hear voices and anyone who does should really see a psychiatrist and get some help.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants

“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”

Gertrude Stein book The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans (1925)

“A lot challenges me! Not psyching myself out, not doubting myself, not comparing myself to others... all of that challenges me. But inevitably, challenges are put into our lives so that we may grow and become the best version of who we are meant to be.”

Lana Condor (1997) Vietnamese-American actress

As quoted in "#RedefineAtoZ: Lana Condor, actress on the rise, sees growth in challenges" in NBC Asian America (1 May 2018) https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/atoz/redefineatoz-lana-condor-actress-rise-sees-growth-challenges-n867281

“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself…”

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