Quotes About Independence

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

To be clear, she always admired hard workers: she just didn't see the point of laboring to benefit someone else. "If you're going to work hard," she used to say, "you might as well work hard for yourself.

My mother's message to black and white folks alike was clear: It's nobody's business what I do for my children, nor how I manage to do it.

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!

I don't think you need a man in this world anymore; I think you just need yourself and a little love and a bath.

Don't treat me like a little girl

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

You are free. The world is yours. got take it.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

They want you to see them as fragile. By so doing, they don't have to put themselves back together. Don't

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

In the communes, sir," he had said proudly, "you will find no churches. You see, religion is for the helpless. Here in China we are not helpless any more." ———

When it comes to religion, the USA is now land of the freelancers" or "a greenhouse for spiritual sprouts."15

It is better that we make our own history than be governed by the dead--William O. Douglas

He went back to his solitary wanderings. Believing any set of four walls to be a tomb or a trap, he preferred to float over the most barren of open spaces.

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.