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My Own Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
- If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
- I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
- I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a…
- So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my…
- The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s…
- Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones…
- I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that…
- My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and…
- So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale