Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

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

One creates oneself.

You choose who you want to be.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

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

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.

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

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.