Quotes About Independence

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

I was married at 20 and had a baby by 21. I had to grow up fast. Luckily there were people who believed in me and there were always jobs when I needed one.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.

It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

I'm grown now. I ain't a kid no more.

My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

I'm a grown man. I'm gonna do what I want to do. If I want to go see my family, I'm going to go see my family.

I'm a grown man.

It's like I somehow snuck a seat at the grown-up table. I'm just trying not to get caught.

This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?