Melissa Marr Quotes

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim. An' don't let anny wan give thim to ye. A right that is handed to ye fer nawthin has somethin the matter with it.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

Do for yourself or do without.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.