295 Quotes About Self-reliance

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Hunting has the potential to balance one’s entire being.

Life is a delicate balance between the idea that we need others for almost everything and the striking reality that nobody owes you anything!

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.