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Quotes about Self-ownership

safety. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, "When the slave leaves bondage, his first act is to name himself.
- Gloria Steinem
We must be our own, before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Oprah Winfrey
I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
- Oprah Winfrey
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'.
- Mark Twain
I don't like belonging to another person's dream
- Lewis Carroll
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson