Quotes About Independence

What's really cool is, I'm secure in myself. So people can have opinions, they can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do, and if I feel a certain way, that's how I feel.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

I am not in chains. My mind is my own.

I've always challenged authority.

I loved to be challenged as a leader. I do not want to be told 'yes.' I want to be told 'no.'

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

Players talk about wanting to win and wanting to be a champion, but ultimately, they want to do it on their own terms.

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

I think that all the time I lived alone changed me.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter.

When you are on the field, you know exactly what is happening out there. You are in charge. You have to make the right choices. No one can decide for you.

If you ask me, there's nothing more incredible than a woman who's in charge of her own destiny - and working daily to make her dreams a reality.

A woman can be in charge!

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.

I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

I was the sixteen-year-old driving everyone to bingo and shopping. It was quite a responsibility. It made me the man in charge of a lot of things.

I'm taking charge of my own business because I don't trust anyone else to do it.