Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

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

You just are born the way that you're born.

I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

You were born as the one you are.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

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

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

I don't want to be somebody else.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.