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Time & Perspective Quote by Robin Quivers

"So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?"

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Quivers is doing something celebrities rarely get credit for: refusing the priestly role the culture keeps trying to hand them. In a media ecosystem that treats famous people like moral vending machines, her line draws a boundary with the plainspoken rhythm of everyday talk. The repeated questions - "Who am I...?" "what would be right for you?" - aren’t rhetorical flourish so much as a quiet disarmament. She’s stripping power from her own platform.

The intent reads as ethical modesty, but the subtext is sharper: she’s calling out our appetite for outsourced judgment. When audiences ask public figures to pronounce on how to live, they’re not just seeking advice; they’re seeking absolution, permission, a shortcut through ambiguity. Quivers refuses to be that shortcut. The phrase "at any given moment of the day" matters because it rejects the fantasy that a life can be solved with a single, stable rule. People change. Context changes. What’s "right" isn’t a product you can mass-produce from a radio studio.

As a celebrity - and as someone long associated with confessional, boundary-pushing broadcast culture - Quivers knows how easily honesty becomes performance. This quote pushes back against the assumption that visibility equals authority. It’s not anti-morality; it’s pro-agency. The cultural move here is less "don’t judge" than "stop hiring strangers to do your self-understanding for you."

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Quivers, Robin. (2026, January 18). So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/so-the-point-is-i-dont-have-a-right-to-tell-20749/

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Quivers, Robin. "So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?" FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/so-the-point-is-i-dont-have-a-right-to-tell-20749/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?" FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/so-the-point-is-i-dont-have-a-right-to-tell-20749/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Robin Quivers (born August 8, 1952) is a Celebrity from USA.

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