Quotes About Self-reliance

Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.

Also, she doesn't want to hear anyone else's inspiring story about a sister-in-law who went through exactly the same thing and is now running ultramarathons. Celeste doesn't mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one's story offers hope.

She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.

Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.

Some women, Ava realizes, would crumple in a pile and feel sorry for themselves, but not Jennifer. Jennifer puts on her gnome sweater.

backbone, Eddie informed Allegra that she would not have

I was, being human, born alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; I live by squeezing from a stone The little nourishment I get.

Of course I am extra strong, but those who try know that strength and knowledge come with doing. I just love to experiment, to work, and to prove out things, so that ranch life and "roughing it" just suit me.

I understood early that I'd find what I needed in books, if not in her. She gave me that. But

book. I understood early that I'd find what I needed in books, if not in her. She gave me that. But

He grabs ropes, furs, blankets, a hatchet, and carrots. Carrots? Okay, so he likes vegetables.

A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

You are responsible for the way your life turns out, not chance, not someone else.

As to wearing the badge of a party, either in politics or religion, I may say that never in my life was I so far from coveting such a thing. And then poetry breathes in another outer air. And then there is not an existent set of any-kind-of-politics I could agree with if I tried —

No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody's ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn't already made up my mind to say.

She is covered in sand, only on her right side. There are no clouds. She is alone. Seonag is used to being alone, even when she is surrounded by people.

I don't need you to give me a life, you old fool. Or haven't you noticed that I've got my own?

I hate hanging our hopes on a man, even if he is both gentle and his mother's son. But he came.

He did not think he'd ever seen her lie down to rest, or even claim a need for it.

I…discovered I liked my own dance. So I stayed away and they requested another retreat on, which they were legally obligated to give me. And that I decided I wasn't going back at all.

My type of woman. Damn it to the Well.

I'd had a taste of living for myself, and I could not go back to living entirely for others again.