Pattie Boyd Quotes

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

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

I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

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.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

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

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

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.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

Using my voice has empowered me to take complete ownership of my life. So, in return for speaking my truth, I listen.

I want to portray myself as myself.