Quotes About Independence

Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you can get the law to protect you, which you can't otherwise, unless he half-runs you through with a knife, or cracks your noddle with a poker. And if he bolts away from you--I say it friendly, as woman to woman, for there's never any knowing what a man med do-- you'll have the sticks o' furniture, and won't be looked upon as a thief.

The chief pleasure connected with asking an opinion lies in not adopting it.

After wearing and wasting her palpitating heart with every engine of regret that lonely inexperience could devise, common sense had illumined her. She felt that she would do well to be useful again—to taste anew sweet independence at any price. The past was past; whatever it had been, it was no more at hand. Whatever its consequences, time would close over them;

A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.

We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks while a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.

the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrane to his professional groove.

Gabriel Oak: It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away

I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know.

Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me! Ay, mistress—so I did. But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!

It is never too late to break off a marriage that's distasteful to you. 

I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as there printed, my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure; but I don't choose him. Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.

But mind this, I don't wish 'ee to feel you owe me anything. Not I. What I do, I do. Sometimes I say I should be as glad as a bird to leave the place — for don't suppose I'm content to be a nobody. I was made for better things.

Hang it, I am not going to feel responsible for my deeds and passions if there's nobody to be responsible to; and if I were you, my dear, I wouldn't either.

I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!

We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.

He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

For a marriage would be very nice in one sense. People would talk about me, and think I had won my battle, and I should feel triumphant, and all that, But a husband-- Well! Why, he'd always be there, as you say; whenever I looked up, there he'd be. Of course he would--I, that is. Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. But since a woman can't show off in that way by herself, I shan't marry--at least yet.

It wouldn't do, Mr Oak. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know. Oak cast his eyes down the field in a way implying that it was useless to attempt argument.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

What I meant to tell you was only this', she said eagerly, and yet half-conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself: 'that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way_ though possibly I shall be to be had some day Bathsheba Everdene

Estava no período mais brilhante do crescimento masculino, com seus intelectos e emoções claramente separadas. O tempo no qual a influência da juventude indiscriminadamente se misturava à impulsividade havia passado, e ainda não havia chegado à fase em que elas se uniam novamente, pela ingerência de uma esposa ou da família. Resumindo, estava com vinte e oito anos e solteiro.

Aber manche Frauen brauchen nur die Herausforderung, damit sie ihr gewachsen sind.

Algunas mujeres sólo necesitan una emergencia para demostrar que son capaces de manejarla.