James A. Garfield Quotes

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

I'm proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them.

Money equals freedom.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I'm for economic independence.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

I never got one cent from the government or from China so I am very independent.