Judy Blume Quotes

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'

I don't give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

I've always made my own decisions and selected a script on my own conviction.

I see too many children who have their lives decided for them from the moment they are born. I want to give them the power to decide their own lives.

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.