Quotes About Self-sufficiency

The four countries with the highest rates of living alone are Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark, where roughly 40 to 45 percent of all households have just one person. By investing in each other's social welfare and affirming their

Ich sehe nicht ein, warum nicht zwei Frauen ihren Weg voll Glück und Harmonie allein gehen können. Was brauchen wir die Männer!

The greatest freedom I have now is that I no longer believe that anyone else can save my life. --Erica Jong, quoted by bell hooks in Communion The Female Search for Love

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death! A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

I don't particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: 'Do you want any help?' That's the weirdest question.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.

Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

Did I get to go to my friends' houses and eat junk food? Sure. And I'm a great cook. And, guess what? There's no prepared food in my house.

I'm not looking for a boyfriend - but if I was, he'd have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.