Greta Gerwig Quotes

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.

The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.