Natalie Massenet Quotes

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

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.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for 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 I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

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 grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

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

I'm for economic independence.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

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

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.