Quotes About Self-reliance

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

Women need men like fish need bicycles.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

Other people do not owe me their availability.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.