Norma McCorvey Quotes

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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

I want to be defined by my own essence.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

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.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

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?

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.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

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

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.