Jacqueline Susann Quotes

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

Don't live your life to please other people.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

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

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

Let me do me.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

If you live your life on your own terms, you might find that people actually give you more respect.

Some people have tried to change me and tell me what to do, but I haven't done it, and it's worked for me.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

I decided I would never let anyone decide who I was.

I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.