Quotes About Independence

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.