Quotes About Independence

don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

thirst for independence overruled her need for guidance

My mother had been all over me as a kid—advice, criticism, the whole smothering mothering thing. There were times I wished she would leave me alone. But then she did. She died. No more visits, no more phone calls.

Forget what the culture says.

and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going into every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone

Seguirei adiante sozinho, de modo que você possa me procurar por lá.

Your adventure is your own. No one may ever take it from you.

I cannot operate from fear anymore.

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth.

like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...

You're so beautiful," her mother said as she was leaving. "You should get a gun.

and each time she returned she told the maid to come with her, and the maid said no, for she had a sense of the fragility of things, and she felt she was a small plant in a small patch of soil held between the rocks of a dry and windy place

Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was determined to survive, and so she did.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

And even if you hate her, can't stand her, even if she's ruining your life, there's something about her, some romance, some power. She's absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you'll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.

Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a holiday in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a swelling belly. Nishi, strong on forward-planning skills, was taking evasive action: she was going on a holiday of her own and she would return when she was twenty-five. At that ancient age the danger of marriage was over.

She wiped her cheeks with the backs of her hands. "I'm alright, stop fussing. Stop treating me like a child." "I will if you stop acting like one." He smiled. "Do we have ourselves a deal?" He held out his hand as though they would shake on it but she folded her arms and turned her head.

But there were no servants here. She would have to manage by herself.

I did not give you my permission, Madame, to treat me in this way. I am here to feed you, not to serve as your fodder. I demand more money for such services, Madame. You pay me only for my time. My story, Madame, is mine. I alone am qualified to tell it, to embelish, or to withhold.

Femina92 from fe minus

Ä°stediÄŸimiz kadar yüksek duvarlara ç?kal?m, yine kendi bacaklar?m?zla yürüyeceÄŸiz. Dünyan?n en yüksek taht?na da ç?ksak, yine kendi k?ç?m?zla oturaca??z.

Benim bütün çabam kimseye muhtaç olmadan yaÅŸamakt?r. Ä°nsanlar hiçbir ÅŸeyimi almazlarsa, bana çok ÅŸey vermiÅŸ olurlar. Hiçbir kötülük etmezlerse, yeterince iyilik etmiÅŸ olurlar.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to yourself .

But I once had a friend who was a cat.' 'Cats are for catching rats.' 'You say that because you think like a farmer with a store of grain to protect. But I tell you cats are for cats, just as Dinas said the stars are stars. Their purpose is simply to be, Pelemos. Cats and stars don't belong to us.