Quotes About Independence

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.

I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

Look, Bill Barr can choose to be a lying partisan hack. It just means he needs to go work for the Trump campaign but he can't be attorney general. That's a position that requires independence, integrity, an oath to the constitution.

But I'm not a political partisan. I don't vote.

My father was an Air Force officer at the time of partition.

Jinnah cannot be honoured in India. He's responsible for the partition of our country. No Jinnah eulogy is acceptable in India.

I was born to sell it as a kid. I think it's partially innate, and partly it's because my parents were always very clear: if I needed anything that wasn't a necessity, I was going to have to save my money and buy it myself. That meant not only did I have to buy basketball shoes, but I had to figure out how to pay for college as well.

I never wanted to get married. I never thought that was in my cards. I always thought I was just going to be an independent woman my entire life. Hopefully having a partner but never getting married.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

I definitely want a partner and would like to spend the rest of my life with somebody, but I don't care if am married or not.

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

I have not settled down with a life partner.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

I don't want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

To be sure, not all women are looking for a partner.

Growing up, all I learned was how best to diminish my own light for a partner.

My writing partner and I usually write separately, because if we write together we are liable to go a little nuts. The person not at the keyboard can start to feel disenfranchised to the point that they sometimes make a lunge for that accoutrement of computer power, the mouse.