Quotes About Independence

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

The older you get, the lesser you are bothered by what others think.

I'm happy to be selfish now. That's the beauty of getting older.

I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

I had an affair with an older woman when I was at college, and she was a strong feminist, which shaped my view of women. I learned that they could call the shots, which was fine with me.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

My father grew up in Levittown, L.I., in the first tract housing built for G.I.'s. His dad had stormed the beaches of Omaha and died when my father was very young. My dad had to raise himself, pretty much.

I admire people who can step out on their own and work alone - that takes a lot of guts. But I'd rather have the camaraderie on and off camera of working as a part of a group.

I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

I have been a loner... even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties - unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.