Quotes About Independence

I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're...you're...booty call!

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bi.... You've got to go out and kick ass.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she'll conquer the world.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.