Sue Grafton Quotes

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

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

Let me do me.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I like my life. I'm not living through anybody else's eyes, anybody else's life; I'm enjoying mine.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I am definitely an individual.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I am my own person.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

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

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.