Quotes About Self-reliance

I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up.

a woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know. You're becoming a woman now, so you should be told this. For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life?but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard. No one will take care of a poor woman?just ourselves.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

The moral of the story is that if you tell yourself you can do something, then you can actually do it, a moral easily disproved if you tell yourself that you can eat nine pints of ice cream in a single sitting, or that you can shipwreck yourself on a distant island simply by setting off in a rented canoe with holes sawed in it.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

People who rely most on God rely least on themselves.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: "I did it myself!

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

In the end you have only you.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself

For the first time it was up to me to do some real hunting instead of waiting and reacting to what other people chose to do.

After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost.

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.