Ella Maillart Quotes

My life is my life, and I'll live it.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I do what I do. I live my life the way I've been living it.

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

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

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.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

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.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

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

I'm just going to live my life the way I want to.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

I want to be my own person.

That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's really no right or wrong way to do things. Everybody has a way they think you should do it. So why not do it your way, you know what I mean, respectfully.

No one can stop me from living my life the way I want to.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I am my own woman.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.