Alive Quote by Audre Lorde

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

— Audre Lorde

I would rather die then not be myself, because without being myself I already would have died.

— Music

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and…

— Frank Lentricchia

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

— Alethea Kontis

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't…

— Salma Hayek

I do not define myself by anyone else.

— Carlos Alcaraz

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

— Fran Lebowitz

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition…

— Anonymous

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

— Sasha Grey

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard