Quotes About Independence

My sorrows are my strength I won't share it with anyone to get rid of it

It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

She had carved out this space for herself, carved it, it sometimes felt, with her bare hands. She had made it small and unaccommodating by design. No one else fit. No room.

It is an ironic paradox: being dependent makes us more independent.

Sod the Office for bloody Statistics and sod the Guardian. It's indulgent Guardian-reading parents like us who've mollycoddled our kids since they were born who are responsible for all this. We've infantilized them, turned them into these delicate flowers who are too scared to go out into the world and get their hands dirty. Ben needs to find a job. Any job. That's all there is to it.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

No one can construct for you the bridge on which you must cross the stream of life, no one but you alone.

I distrust all systematisers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

In my opinion it is essential to get lost in a new city, that way you are forced to walk about and discover places at a proper, natural pace. But you must have the taxi fare home, and it helps if you can remember the name of your hotel.

I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.

I understand you've chosen to live this way." But Perveen remained concerned about how little contact they had with others—and not even a telephone for emergencies.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

It seemed that all her life she'd been seeking someone's approval: Father's, Grandmother's... hell, all of society's. Well, she was through. She hadn't asked for anything this time—not a blessed thing—but even that wasn't good enough.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied?