Libba Bray Quotes

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

I don't have to explain myself to nobody. Nobody. I don't.

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple and natural. It is very psychological. There comes an age when every child has to say NO to the parents. If he does not say no to the parents he will not have a spine; he will be spineless. If he cannot say no to the parents, he will be a slave his whole life. He will never attain to individuality.

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

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.

The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

I don't run behind authority.

I really rebel against authority.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

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.

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

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.