Quotes About Independence

This is me, trying to make a choice, to make something for myself in the only way that I know how.

Why don't you run away and leave everybody else to clean up the mess? Then you can get on your high horse as usual and blame everybody but yourself.

I helped you help me, you helped me to help you, that's the way it must be or the very idea of help would be obsolete. I always thought that being helped was a loss of control, but you must allow someone to help you, you must want someone to help you, and only then can the act begin.

It was the day I was going to take hold of my life. I would once and for all take back what was rightfully mine: my freedom, my dignity and my pride.

There was a difference within me today. I didn't care what his problem was. I didn't care if I had done something to annoy him. This time I knew it wasn't my fault. It had never been my fault.

while everybody else marches to the beat of their own important drum. I constantly feel hungry, metaphorically and literally.

Oh don't let people walk all over you Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.

He wanted to prove to the world that he was able to achieve something, that he could stand out from the crowd even when he felt the world was telling him he couldn't.

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves ~Gabe

Tinsley hated the thought of people greeting her with "Where's Julian?" It was like once you were a couple, you ceased to exist as an individual. It made her a little sick to her stomach.

I don't need anyone in my life who doesn't wanna be there.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Your leaders want you to have independence and ownership. Making, executing, and communicating plans will help you attain both.

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a "universal" without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

People with autism don't need wheelchairs, artifical legs, or a guide dog. Their prosthesis is people,' says Ruth Christ Sullivan, Ph.D., a founder of the Autism Society of America (ASA), and I could agree with her more. Having good direct support staff in your loved one's life is what makes the difference between a good life and a dismal one.

I am a woman, hear me roar, I said. Gosh, what prompted that? Amelia asked, and I jumped

Can I help you up?" No," she said bitterly. "I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor." Bitch," I said, squatting to help her up.

Bill said, She is mine. I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said Sookie! in shocked admonishment. I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself, Eric said softly.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I'll never be an average woman.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

Well, screw him. I'd tried my best.