Quotes About Self-reliance

If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front of the television set and ate it. I felt very brave and plucky as I ate my perfect dinner. Okay, I didn't have a date, but at least I wasn't one of those lonely women who sat home with a pathetic container of yogurt.

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last. -adrianne It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold. -philip

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.

I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.

i get what i want cause i can be a stubborn bitch when i need to

Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.

If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life.

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.

I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.

I know how to take care of myself." "No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don't know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That's conceit." She slapped the glass on the counter. "It's independence and capability." "To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.

Look,I'll pay you for a cup of coffee and the use of this- she thumped a hand on the sofa and a soft plume of dust rose up -thing for the night. I don't take in lodgers. And you'd probably kick a sick dog if he got in your way, she added evenly.

Rude or not, she'd accept his offer of help.Then as far as she was concerned, Grant Campbell could go to the devil.

From this day forward, she thought, this was home. One she'd make herself, for herself. This was her life, one she'd live as she wanted. If that wasn't magick, what was?

she didn't want to date anyone. A relationship, if indeed she decided to cultivate one, was three years down the road. Minimum. She would never make the mistake... [to] depend on someone else for emotional and financial support. First, she would make certain she was solvent, solid, and secure. And then, if and when she chose, she would think about sharing her life.

West cowboy gun belts. When a man's wearing one—naturally—a woman knows he can handle himself.

When people break your heart, pride's all you've got left.

She was a grown woman, capable of making her own decisions. She wasn't stupid and she wasn't helpless.

to the woman

Magick isn't every answer. A body must know how to fend for himself without it as well. A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.