Erin O'Connor Quotes

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.

Nobody can stop me from being what I want to be.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

As her mother, I am always there, but Alia knows what she wants both professionally and personally.

I know what is best for me.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.