Quotes About Self-reliance

Tomorrow you'll do it right, show him just because you're a woman don't mean you can't hold your own." Charity turned. "That's what you'd do, isn't it, Maude?" She laughed. "Honey, that's what I been doin' all my life.

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders. Other than that, I was on my own. It was sad though. Where was the chivalry of yesteryear?

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

There was really no need for a woman to have a man in her life in order to be happy, Cecily assured herself. In fact, a man could be quite bothersome, especially when he refused to explain the reason for his disturbing behavior. If she ever returned to this life, she had often told herself, it would be as a man. Men, it seemed, were blithely unconcerned with the feelings of others.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

two people who are used to having their own way should stay separate

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.

When you got nobody to love and nothing to live for, you can always make money.