Leonora Carrington Quotes

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

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

You choose who you want to be.

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

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.

The individual is greater than the state.

We will implement what we want. What we do not want, no one can impose on us

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

Take destiny in your own hands.

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

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

If you live your life on your own terms, you might find that people actually give you more respect.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

No one is going to tell me how I need to think. No one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to.

You can write your own history.