Margo Lanagan Quotes

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

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 think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I'm for economic independence.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

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

Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.

I do not have to depend on a man to give me bread.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

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

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

A lot of women feel it's a man's world. Some people think all you need to do is marry a rich guy, and you don't need to do anything with your life. I would hate that. I don't care whether he has money or he doesn't, because I don't need it, and that's a good feeling that I don't have to worry about that.

There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.