“In your presence, dearly beloved,/ I do not need to make up!/ I do not need to adorn myself!/ I can just be myself!/ What a relief!”

“I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”

“For a thousand years I have been asking myself, "what will I do now?" And still I need not answer.”

“I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.”

“I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.”

“I need to be myself / I can't be no-one else
"You can have it all but how much do you want it?"”

““I have no need to expose myself to your flummery,” Mette said with dignity. “I believe in order that I may know. I do not know in order to believe.”
“I marvel at your spite. Of what possible benefit can this willful ignorance be to you?””

“I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.”

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

“Ah men,
why do you want
all this attention?
I can write poems for myself, make
love to a doorknob if absolutely
necessary. What do you have to offer me
I can't find otherwise
except humiliation? Which I no longer
need.”