Paul Bloom

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Canadian Psychologist

Rachel Simmons

Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.

American Author

Sue Monk Kidd

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

American Writer

Kevin Young

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.

Tracee Ellis Ross

My goal is to make space for my selfhood. All of it. All of me, not just the parts I like or think that others like but all of it.

American Actress

Tony Campolo

In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.

American Clergyman

Orison Swett Marden

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

Jonathan Dee

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

American Novelist

Martin Heidegger

German Philosopher

Selfhood often refers to a personal journey of discovering who you are.

Personal Journey

The word emphasizes internal understanding, not just external labels.

Inner Reflection

Selfhood transcends social roles or obligations and is about personal independence.

Beyond Social Roles

Selfhood can be expressed in unique personal choices and style.

Individual Expression

In philosophy, selfhood is discussed as part of larger existential questions.

Philosophical Concept

Selfhood in philosophical contexts might not refer to a physical sense but an existential one.

Metaphysical Aspect

 that each one of us comes into this world with a unique worth. When I looked into the face of a newborn, I caught a glimpse of that worthiness, that sense of unapologetic selfhood, that unique spark.