Quotes About Independence

I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.

You can be feminine without being a victim. You can be sexy and use your big-girl voice at the same time.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

I'm a single girl. I like to have a good time. I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it's easier.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time I returned - got old quickly.

Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.