Quotes About Self-sufficiency

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

I understand you've chosen to live this way." But Perveen remained concerned about how little contact they had with others—and not even a telephone for emergencies.

My parents were/are straight-edge hippies. Mom roamed around gardening so we would have fresh food, and Dad was on wood-chopping duty to heat our passive solar home that they figured out how to design and build together. I was the kid with green peppers in my lunch, and I liked them!

I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

Working solo means you don't have to account for anybody else. You do it yourself, so you're not trying to please others as well as yourself; you're just trying to do the best you can.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

I think someday, out in space, perhaps, some people might be able to grow some of their own food or hopefully on another planet.

What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.

Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.

I bought a backscrabber. One more reason to have no need for a relationship.

Don't need to stand by me, I'm enough for myself.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body. Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

She once explained to me that, as a Molotschnan, she had everything she wanted; all she had to do was convince herself that she wanted very little.

But there were no servants here. She would have to manage by herself.

Ä°stediÄŸimiz kadar yüksek duvarlara ç?kal?m, yine kendi bacaklar?m?zla yürüyeceÄŸiz. Dünyan?n en yüksek taht?na da ç?ksak, yine kendi k?ç?m?zla oturaca??z.

Benim bütün çabam kimseye muhtaç olmadan yaÅŸamakt?r. Ä°nsanlar hiçbir ÅŸeyimi almazlarsa, bana çok ÅŸey vermiÅŸ olurlar. Hiçbir kötülük etmezlerse, yeterince iyilik etmiÅŸ olurlar.