Quotes by Self Made One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience. Alexandra Fuller self-made tough mother No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it. Alfred Austin made-it self-made garden Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made. Decimius Magnus Ausonius self-made chains made Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. Frederick Douglass self-made important opportunity Man is emphatically self-made. John Henry Newman self-made self men I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word Laverne Cox self-made self made Time itself made all things rare. Lionel Shriver self-made all-things made Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend? Michael Moorcock self-made fate people I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself. Nia Long self-made self made The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly. Vera Farmiga self-made birth giving
