Libba Bray Quotes

My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

You don't ever have to feel pushed into anything.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

We always have a choice.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

My choice is what I choose to be.

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

we're responsible for our own lives.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.