Quotes About Independence

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

My mother did what many men do. She left.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.