Kristy Swanson Quotes

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

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

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.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

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

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

I've always decided that I would never be dependant on a man.

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

I think it's empowering for women to be in a relationship or single and have their own independence.

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

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

I have a lot of dignity and am my own woman who does not dance to anyone's tunes.

I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.

A lot of women feel it's a man's world. Some people think all you need to do is marry a rich guy, and you don't need to do anything with your life. I would hate that. I don't care whether he has money or he doesn't, because I don't need it, and that's a good feeling that I don't have to worry about that.

Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself.

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.