Quotes About Independence

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

I have no family to take care of.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.