Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

I want to go out on my terms.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

At home, I make the decisions.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

We were not designed to be dominated.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.