Martha Gellhorn Quotes

I want an identity outside of my work.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.

I've always been very clear: I never want to be known just as somebody's girlfriend.

I decided I would never let anyone decide who I was.

I want to be my own person.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

I'm more than just an option.

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

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I'm Thalia on my own.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

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.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.