Margaret Atwood Quotes

I am totally okay on my own. I don't want to have to have a man to feel whole. It's not that I need that to feel like I have a full life. No, I have a full life.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

I don't live for anyone other than myself, and I don't have a problem showing people or telling them.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

I feel so lucky and so privileged that I like writing for myself. Like, I don't have to wait for somebody to create a part for me or a project for me. I can just do it. And that's so great.

I like having the space of my own project.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

I am my own woman.