Jyoti Amge Quotes

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

Alone I'm nothing.

There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one.

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 have no power, no independence.

When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.

When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

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.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I'm not good at accepting help.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

People are always like, 'It must be so hard for you, not to be able to leave your house. I'm like, 'No, I go where I want and do whatever I want all the time.' 'No, you walk down the street?' 'Yeah, I do all the time.' 'Really?' 'Yeah, all the time.'

I cannot live alone.