Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

One creates oneself.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

You choose who you want to be.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Every act is an act of self definition.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

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.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

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