Quotes About Self Sufficient Woman

#1. How often we set this trap for ourselves. I had learned to act as if I were the person I wished to be: an ascetically self-sufficient woman, a woman without needs, a woman immune to disappointment. And I found or urged myself to be attracted to people whom only such a woman should love.

Melissa Febos

#2. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#3. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.

Jane Messer

#4. Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

Marc Almond

#5. Life isn't about just having dreams, it's all about transforming them into reality.

M.H. Rakib

#6. Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Samuel Richardson

#7. Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home - it is not much,
I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom.
I will not lightly surrender it.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. An American man endowed with sufficient wealth can purchase anything, but an American woman endowed with sufficient beauty does not need to.

Jacob M. Appel

#9. You'll never be completely sure about the first move, but do it anyway.

Sarvesh Jain

#10. He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

Victor Hugo

#11. It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Samuel Johnson

#12. To reciprocate God's love is a sign of being a recipient

Sunday Adelaja

#13. You're gorgeous," she said. Her hands slid around to flatten themselves against his chest. "You know that right?"
"And I just don't care," she says
"Isabelle, I don't think-Wait, What?

Cassandra Clare

#14. School is a foretaste of life.

Georg Brandes

#15. I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

Marianne Williamson

#16. We must look a long time before we can see

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Hayao Miyazaki

#18. I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

John Milton

#19. The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Robert Breault

#20. Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?

John Hagee

#21. It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance ...

Wassily Kandinsky

#22. She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now?

Louise Penny

#23. Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

Neil Gaiman

#24. The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

Agnes Repplier