Quotes About Independence

You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

Some days I think, 'I have to get married soon,' but other days I think there's no need to get married when I'm enjoying life while doing something I love.

I'm one of those people, since I was 5, I could tell you I was going to have kids. I could tell you I was going to have three. I could tell you they were going to be girls. But I have never wanted to get married. I never played bride. I was never interested. I don't know what it is; I never wanted to get married.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

Like nearly every female, I thought I'd get married and that would be it for life.

I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.

I didn't think I would ever get married, and that was a choice.

It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You're just going to get married and have kids and you won't use your degree. And it's expensive. We had a knockdown, drag-out fight, which was great. Yeah. In the driveway. My father said, 'You're on your own.'

I didn't want to get married.

I didn't want to get married to somebody just because I was ageing and wanted a child.

I am single, and my mother is worried. She wants me to get married. Now that I'm in my 30s, I can't wait for the work-load to slow down. I need to find someone who will accompany me in my professional journey.

Whenever I get married in future, I will continue to work.

Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married.

My mother wants me to settle down and have children! I'm aware that it's a mother's concern and I respect it. But I can't get married because I have to get married. I have to be in love with the woman I commit to.

I'll get married when I'm bloody ready!

I am being chided every day at home to get married.

A really good detective never gets married.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.

In every kid's life, there's about three or four years when you're at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you're getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is. I was lucky: I didn't get married, so I didn't have to have that responsibility.