Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Those of us who are going to live, Dinah Said, have to start living by our own lights.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.

nobody owes you anything

That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

A young man who insists that his mother should lay out three separate sets of clothes every morning for him to take his choice at his leisure is unlikely to be popular in any century.

I mow my own lawn.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

But I don't pay much attention to outside influences. People can say what they want. I always try to focus on my own environment.

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

I like to cook chicken adobo and do my own laundry.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.