Quotes About Independence

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.