I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.
The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.
When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.
I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.
Friends often tell me how much their grandchildren enjoy 'Are You Being Served?' It doesn't matter that they were not even born when it was broadcast, or that they belong to a very different world.
A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.
Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.
There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.
I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.
Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.
According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me; how could I possibly belong any place else?
I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.
