Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Mahatma Gandhi
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Quentin Crisp
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Christopher Hitchens
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. James H. Douglas
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. Alison Bechdel
