The self isn’t for sale
The only way to be more than a number, more than a useful object, more than a consumer, more than a CV or a Facebook profile, is to identify what is valuable to you, what is worthwhile to you, worth living for – perhaps even worth dying for, and then to keep faith with the you that you are. I don’t mean in a rigid paranoid way; the self changes but the self isn’t for sale.
- Jeanette Winterson