Rachel Cohn Quotes

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

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

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

In this country I am my own master and may do as I please

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I can be someone's and still be my own.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

Whether it’s your taste in clothing, your needs in a relationship, or what you do for a living—don’t let anyone else be at the controls. Define yourself.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

That's how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains and the townsfolk can't get them back.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

His warmth was all around me, as was his love, and again, I felt that completeness. I had that missing piece of my word back. The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal. Not only that, I had my life back -my own life. I would protect Lissa, I would serve, but I was finally my own person.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.