Alexandra Adornetto Quotes

It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

I don't see men or women as my sexual objects. I keep myself out of that equation.

I am definitely an individual.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

My family and friends are the only people I pay mind to. It's none of my business what anyone else thinks. I don't even know them, so why should I care?

You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.

I want people to see me as my own person.

Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!'

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

Everybody's problem is not yours, regardless of marriage and relationships, and I think women sometimes have to shed "what we think it should be" and address "what it is".

I want to describe myself, not be described by others.

...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.

It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.