Kyle Lowry Quotes

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

That callousness that comes from feeling like you have to survive on your own - I really empathized with that.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out for yourself.

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I know how to look after myself.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.