Quotes about Self-ownership

safety. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, "When the slave leaves bondage, his first act is to name himself.

We must be our own, before we can be another's.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

We must be our own before we can be another's.