Kate Bernheimer Quotes

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

He is great enough that is his own master.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.