“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
“For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.”
“They will be the architects of my fate, I think to myself, despite what Sybil said about my being the author of my own destiny.”
“Would that my mother could be author of my fate ...!”
“And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.”
“I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.”