The Legion argues in court documents that the fact that she paid her own way showed she had control over her own finances.
Determined to get an education, she founded her own company, and she made enough money to put herself through university.
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Although she had been generating income from selling her own calendars and modeling for catalogues, she hit the big time by creating her own fashion line--for which she still models--and licensing her name and image to 16 manufacturers that sell her products at 50, 000 locations in 15 countries.
Yet although she enjoys being her own boss, she also thinks that working in a hawker stall is not a job for young people.
"I knew I had to apply pressure right from the start against Majoli, because if she can play her own game, she's tough, " Clijsters said.
Not only does she have her own talk show and lucrative endorsements with the likes of American Express and Vitamin Water, but she also owns part of a pet food company, Halo, and recently started her own record label.
Every time she held her own in the debates, for example, she put the lie to those old sexist charges that women just aren't logical or smart enough to run the show.
For now, women tell her to clear her head, to steady her hands or she'll gray a lock of the child's hair wherever she worries her own, imprint somewhere the outline of a thing she craves too much.
When she sang her own name as part of his lyric it was like she had let him name her.
The trial had previously heard Miss Lewis admit she left Lloyd mistreat Aaron because she feared for her own safety, but she did not think he would seriously hurt the baby.
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This was because her family believed that she had probably left on her own as she was angry that her son was removed from her custody, her grandmother, Barbara Knight, was quoted as saying by the Cleveland.com website.
In May, stay-at-home mom Holly McCall, who says she was denied her own credit card because she has no individual income, went to the CFPB's headquarters in Washington to hand-deliver thousands of signatures from a petition urging the bureau to fix the law.
She has five kids, she shoots and skins her own food, she's not embarrassed to be Christian and she talks like a regular gal.
After earning her degree in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 (where she kept her own bottle of Bowmore in her desk drawer for special occasions), she spent a year studying the chemistry of Newcastle Brown Ale.
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Yael Lustmann, 42, says she runs her own daily deals through Facebook and Yelp for her shaved-ice shop so she can cut out the middleman.
She said she later found a letter under Neve's mattress, after she had cut her own wrists, which said she had "never gotten over" what had happened to her father.
Smith, a forensic psychologist, never got a clear answer to the first question, but she answered the second one on her own: She knew deep down that her stressful working conditions had contributed to her medical crisis.
She married late in life and had no children of her own, but she loved her nieces and nephews as if they were her own kids.
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Fifteen years ago, she used to own a little piece of land with a broken wooden fence and a two-room adobe construction where she lived with her husband and three daughters.
And she reports a vision of her own, which she had while working with the English witches.
If she really wants to change the party in her own image, she'll need to work very hard from within to remake this notoriously broad church in her own image.
Sharleen McLennon, who also had been homeless and found support with Quarriers, said she had "no idea just how difficult it would be" to live alone and she could not cope with her own house as she did not have the skills required.
"Everything is very substantial, so you really make a statement when you wear a piece, " explains Hollywood stylist Petra Flannery, who is as likely to finish off one of her A-list young actors' outfits with a Pomellato flourish as she is to wear her own weighty gold band she bought in Rome in her early twenties.
Years later she would tell her own children that among the first phrases she learned to say was Kodwa silambile.
Yet, when she sat down and read the Koran on her own, she found that everything the preachers had said was written in the book.
She will have to go to the souk on her own, she will have to get the food, she will have to drive the kids to and from school.
The duchess landed the job after an appearance on American Television earlier in the year when she was promoting her own cook book - but wryly admitted that she couldn't actually cook.
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She now runs the business on her own and says she has managed to double sales from a year ago.
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