“When I was twenty, I chose my life. It wasn't this one.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
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Context: My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
“You are a concert pianist. That was my life when I was twenty-two years old.”
Quoted in But Enough About Me by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 96
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“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”
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Source: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 134.
Source: As quoted in "They Changed Their Careers and Became Famous; Cary a Failure?" https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87358421/the-boston-globe/ by Jack Harrison Pollack, Parade (November 16, 1969), p. 7; and The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1978) by Leslie Halliwell, p.229
