Jodi Picoult Quotes

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

We can be anybody we wanna be.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

Be whatever you want to be.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.