Quotes About Independence

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.

I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.