Quotes About Independence

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

I liked roaming around by myself.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.

I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.

I won't even say who I'm going to vote for. I don't want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.

I don't give my 100 per cent to any man.There should be an element of mystery left in the relationship to make it more fun.

I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I could find on how not to become my mother.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

I'm lucky to have this career where I haven't spent time nailed down to one brand.

My friends think I'm a candidate for a lobotomy, and my competitors think I'm naive or stupid or both. But you know what? I don't care.

I just want to raise a confident girl. I just want her to know that she doesn't need to be sending naked pictures and doing all that stuff - I'm definitely going to monitor everything. I want to raise her to know that she can go do whatever she wants in life and to be comfortable in her own skin, which I think also just comes with age and time.

Life is too short to have anybody named McMahon in mine.

I don't go by brand names for directors.

I don't care if someone calls me names.

I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.