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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.