Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I'm my own person, and I don't expect anything from anyone.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

If you live your life on your own terms, you might find that people actually give you more respect.

No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be.

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I'm just going to live my life the way I want to.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.

I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.