Quotes About Self-reliance

I'm not going to have a husband anyway, said Laura. I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

She rents herself a large, empty apartment on the top floor of a house. She has no long-term plans. At night she listens to the radio and cooks subsistence meals, and cries onto her plate.

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

She lived with several men, but in each of the apartments there were always cardboard boxes, belonging to her, that she never got around to unpacking; just as well, because it was that much easier to move out. When she got past thirty she decided it might be nice to have a child, some time, later. She tried to figure out a way of doing this without becoming a mother.

Don't go yet," he said, but it was never any use saying don't go yet to her. When she'd decided a thing, she was on her way.

He wouldn't have much of a life out there, picking through garbage dumps and fighting off scavengers, but at least he'd be in charge of himself again.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got—and that's a mind that's made up.

I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...

I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.

Why, she had never had to do a thing for herself in all her life. There had always been someone to do things for her, to look after her, shelter and protect her and spoil her. It was incredible that she could be in such a fix. Not a friend, not a neighbor to help her. There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves. And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.

What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils

I've never bothered about what people said.

building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.