Quotes About Self-sufficiency

She refused, over and over, to give any single person her devotion, preferring instead to make a home for herself that she defined on her own terms, and of which she was master.

I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea. I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Where're your papers?" "My what?" "Your I.D. -- draft card, social security, driver's license." "Don't have none. Don't need none. I already know who I am.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.

I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

By God's grace, I'm not hungry for publicity, God has given me enough to fend for myself.

I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.

Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Because my man is handsome and successful, that makes me a gold digger? First of all, I pay my own bills, and I still pay my own bills. But if your man is gonna give you a gift, you're gonna accept it. I'm not gonna be like, 'No, can you please take back the Louis Vuitton purse?' Absolutely not.