Quotes About Independence

When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practical to have a dog. So I got a couple of kittens, and that was it.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I never run away from things but confront them, and I preferred to stay on the periphery of Mumbai film industry.

I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant.

I knew from being pregnant that you can be very strong. You're still very capable. Especially if it was stuff you were able to do before.

The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and not as Alessandra. That, really, I don't like. I didn't know my grandfather. I am me.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

I was 20 years old went I went to the Premier League. When you are 20, you need from other people, you need people to talk to you. But when I went over there, nobody helped me.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

The E.U. must see us prepare for life outside of the E.U. without a deal for them to take us seriously.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

I'm not looking for a boyfriend - but if I was, he'd have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

My mom was obsessed with Joni Mitchell; I grew up listening to so much of her music. But it was never a prerogative to emulate her.

We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

Single women will get us closer to gender equality, and that will take many forms, including a reimagining of what families entail and what it means to have a full female life. Also, their presence will force the government to support a population of independent women more capably.

Even though she may not be a physical presence, for me RuPaul is an aspirational presence. Ru is out there doing her job - being RuPaul. That takes a lot of time and a lot of commitment. Besides, I don't need RuPaul standing over my shoulder telling me 'Good Job.'

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.