Patricia Briggs Quotes

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

A girl, whether in the industry or out of it, has to protect herself.

You have to have your own back.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.