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“Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.”

“I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.”

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Author:Janet Jackson

“Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.”

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Author:Maynard Webb

“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.”

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Author:Tristan Prettyman

“I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.”

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Author:Ray Romano

“You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.”

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Author:Damian Lewis

“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.”

“I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.”

Ifs Children Facts Order Parent My Own Secret Growing Up Growing Easier Independent Available Betrayal Selfish Supposed To Be Facts Of Life Easier Times

Book:Stay

Source: Stay

“My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.”

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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.”

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Author:Sloane Crosley

“The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.”

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Book:HER LIFE AND WORK

Source: HER LIFE AND WORK