Lucy Larcom Quotes

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

To me, basically, the whole meaning of 'Little Women' and what it conveys to me is the choice of being any kind of woman.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.

If you do nothing you get nothing.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

Absolutely, yes, I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true.

I want everybody to find meaning in whatever they do. That's the only purpose to life, actually. Let that meaning be so strong that you can't not wake up every day and be like, "Yep, this is what I gotta do, let's keep it moving" and not be disgruntled about it, and start using other people as excuses for why you're not creating a better life for yourself.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Don't make excuses, make good.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.