Nathalie Sarraute Quotes

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I just live my life.

People have to do what they want to do.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.