Quotes About Independence

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

You should always speak your mind, and be bold, and be obnoxious, and do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you to stop it.

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

Upon my eighteenth birthday I was given three choices: 1. Join the church, and live at home. 2. Move out and live on my own. 3. Move into the single men's home.

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

We Brits feel no resentment about 'losing' our American colonies. We're quite fond of independent Americans, and see them as distant cousins who can't spell our language properly. We've cooperated with America pretty amicably on projects like liberating Europe and inventing pop music. And we have no desire whatsoever to try and govern Texas.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

Guys that set off to hike around the world are a dime a dozen in California. Every day in this state women tell divorce judges, "He walked to the corner convenience store for a pack of cigarettes and decided to keep going, all the way around the world, and here is the postcard he sent to let me know.

Abandon all supports," says Krishna to Arjuna in one of his great final teachings. "Cast off your dependency on everything external, Arjuna, and rely on the Self alone." We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.