Suheir Hammad Quotes

I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

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

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

I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

I've always decided that I would never be dependant on a man.

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

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

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

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.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

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

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

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 father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.

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

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

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.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Self government means self support.

There's nothing free. Stay independent and don't fall.