Nora Roberts Quotes

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

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

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

Nobody is powerless.

I am my own man.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Liberty is its own reward.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.