“They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!”
“The Field of Vision” p. 243 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
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“I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.”
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Soviet diplomat
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
Jennifer Shahade (1980) chess player
Gothamist interview (2006)
Context: My first goal is to create an attractive, interactive website that forms a community of chess lovers. I want to keep it light and keep people coming back ⎯ heavy on photos, humor, and simple chess tactics and strategies. I want to promote our top players to increase their visibility and their chances to make a living at chess.
“I wanted my own computer my whole life.”
Steve Wozniak (1950) American inventor, computer engineer and programmer
Bloomberg Business interview (2014)
“My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.”
Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
On Extended Wings (1985)
“I want to make my own life a masterpiece.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Talks with Mussolini (1932), quoting earlier remarks <br class="br">As quoted in " Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777927-4,00.html <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Variant: I shall make my own life a masterpiece.
