Quotes About Independence

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy.

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

I've always taken care of myself, and I'm a non-conformist, so I don't accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

We usually let our husbands negotiate the house and the cars. But I never had a husband, so I was always buying my own houses and cars, so I knew how to negotiate.

I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.

I grew up exploring my neighborhood and beyond, and would love to give my daughter that kind of freedom.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

Someone like Donald Trump can't control the way I show love to my brother. He can't control the way I feel about my neighbors.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

I was on my own for a long time before I married Neil, and now I'm on my own again. I've kind of gotten over the separation and divorce. I'm capable. I can do this.

I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.

Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.

I have an independent identity and have full support of my husband, who also has made his name, not because he was someone's nephew but because of his talent.