Betty Friedan Quotes

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

I tell all kids and the girls growing up that you control your own life, you control your destiny - not where you're born, not who your parents are.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Only you can control your future.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.