Quotes About Independence

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.

It's very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I've seen along the way, I don't think I've missed much.

As a person who has lived through my parents' divorce, I don't feel lesser or that I've missed out. I didn't become an adult and think: 'My family really messed me up.'

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

I've always been comfortable being the first person at a party, metaphorically speaking - being the first person on the dance floor, saying, 'This is where it's happening, people, and if you don't think so, that's cool, but I think you're missing out.' That's my general philosophy, and it's served me pretty well.

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

Mississippi's never going to be China.

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

I will be a strong voice for Mississippi, and not an echo.

I'm from Kansas City, Missouri. No one has to give a damn about my story.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

I like to make my own mistakes.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.

Sports and politics don't mix.