Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.

Nobody is powerless.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

I willed myself into being.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

You can be whoever you want to be. Don't let those voices or noises, whether they're inside or outside, distract you.

I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I'm walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it's not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.