Willa Cather Quotes

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

I don't want to end up being dependent on anyone.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I'm Thalia on my own.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I have always been independent.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I try to be as independent as possible.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.