Quotes About Independence

You have to be prepared to fight and finish your own battles.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

I like to be strong.

Girls should empower themselves and be strong enough to protect themselves.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

I don't care about anything but what I want to do. You can't worry about what else is happening out there. You have to be true to yourself.

Nobody told me that you needed to learn to be alone to enjoy to love your own company - to find peace and to be yourself.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don't want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn't work.

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks.

I'm not building my life round not being able to bear the thought of being in my 60s and not having someone next to me when I wake up in the morning. That's not what drives me.

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG's house; it wasn't nobody to help me.

I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.

Freedom is a powerful and beautiful thing.

I handle my home beautifully. However, I am not just my husband's name.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I have always had a bee in my bonnet about being seen to do things for myself.

It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.