Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Americans owe nothing to any man, they expect nothing from any man; they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands. Thus democracy throws [a man] back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

Sara had told me that a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

It's no good to need someone more than you want them.

I was raised by a solitary woman to be a solitary child, and that was, I now saw, what I had hopelessly become.

In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

the God of woman is autonomy

Whatever was going on between my parents, I suppose that my fantasy of self-sufficiency, my heavy investment in my own mind, is also a kind of narcissistic cathexis.

There's no match for the sweetness independence brings.

The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.

If you're waiting for someone to make the world just right for you so you can succeed, you're on the road to nowhere.

I like that. I'm all for being an empowered female badass, but I still need someone to lift heavy things off the top closet shelf.

If every kitchen in America had enough chickens attached to it to eat all of the scraps coming out of that kitchen, no egg industry or commerce would be necessary in the whole country.

The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.