Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

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.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I have a fiercely independent spirit.

Everybody is their own person.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

Other people's opinions don't matter to me.

Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.