Quotes About Independence

Live for yourself.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make learning unnecessary.

Pour yourself a drink, put some lipstick and pull yourself together.

Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

Today's a new day. It's your day. You shape it. Don't let it be shaped by someone else's ignorance or fear.

"The cat is there when you call her – if she doesn't have something better to do."

"Cats choose us; we don't own them."

One of the main reasons people don't end toxic relationships is because they're afraid to be alone.

And against all the odds She stood up like the last samurai on the battleground She raised up like high tides on the full moon She shined up like an alpha Centauri She ignited like a tequila on the first sip She fiereced like the alpha of the pack And the whole world craved for her like the water on the Mars.

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

What's it to me if you love me or miss me or need me when you are doing nothing to be with me if you can't allow me to be the love of your life I will be the loss of your life instead

A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is turned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

Marriage is just fancy word to adopt an over grown male child who is no more handled by his parents.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.