Quotes About Independence

It's not fair . . . She's mine . . . She's always been mine," George whined deliriously. "No she's not," Jason spat. And then, he took the triptych from Mr. Ellis's hands. And looking into her eyes, handed it to Winn. "She never belonged to anyone but herself.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

And as I'm leaving, my mother has the housekeeper hand me a shopping bag of food. I could win a bloody Oscar for a film someday, and my mother would still be asking me if I had enough clean clothes for the week.

For medieval women as well as men literary productivity goes hand in hand with the opportunity for education, at least a modicum of scholarly idleness, access to materials needed for work, some financial independence, patronage in social, religious, or financial form (...) With women writers, an added prerequisite often entails the freedom from repeated pregnancies and childbearing. [Introduction]

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.

Katharine Hepburn

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility.

two people who are used to having their own way should stay separate

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.