Self Determination Quotes

"Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people" "Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter" "Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it." "I am a feminist, and what that means to me is to not be afraid of making decisions that affect my own life." "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you" "It is only in our decisions that we are important." "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." "Do not go with the flow. Be the flow." "We are our choices." "Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself." "I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a one size fits all standard for happiness." "We got to have money. Lots of money. In fact, I like to think of it as fuck you money, because that's exactly what you say when somebody tells you to do what you don't want to do" "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." "You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want" "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." "You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you" "I guess destiny isn't the path given to us, but the path we choose for ourselves" "No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body." "Be the hero of your own story." "I don't care about what people think because people don't think."