Mark Twain Quotes

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Sometimes you have to wear what you want.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

When you value people, you give them freedom.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Our work is a scream of freedom.