Quotes About Independence

Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

From the beginning, his mother and Pilate had fought for his life, and he had never so much as made either of them a cup of tea.

Beloved, she my daughter. She mine. See. She come back to me of her own free will and I don't have to explain a thing.

You already alone. If you want more alone, I can knock you into the middle of next week, and leave you there.

Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

What you want to be when you grow up?" Thomas turned the knob with his left hand and opened the door. "A man," he said and left.

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.

I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now

He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.

If I'm here...you can go anywhere you want. Jump if you want to. 'Cause I'll catch you, girl. I'll catch you 'fore you fall.

You your own best thing. -Paul D.

Female freedom always means sexual freedom, even when—especially when—it is seen through the prism of economic freedom.

He didn't want an outsider judging his family. That was his job.

Se libérer était une chose, revendiquer la propriété de ce moi libéré en était une autre.

Although she has claim, she is not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts into her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away.

Pauline, what would you do if your own brother had a party and didn't invite you?' I said ifn I really wanted to go to that party, I reckoned I'd go anyhow. Never mind what he want. She just sucked her teeth a little and made out like what I said was dumb. All the while I was thinking how dumb she was. Whoever told her that her brother was her friend? Folks can't like folks just 'cause they has the same mama.

Well, don't let your mouth start nothing that your ass can't stand. When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It'll settle you. I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

tougher, because she could do and survive things they believed she should neither do nor survive.

Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with the others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Were we women so frail in the wake of men who swore they cherished us? Was a lover's betrayal more lethal than betrayal of oneself?

There was nobody but me to take care of me so I invented myself, toughened myself.

to get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.