John Ruskin Quotes

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.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

Education is freedom.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

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

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Freedom can occur only through education.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.