Quotes About Independence

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings!

Yo recuerdo siempre que cuando tenía cinco años dije a mi madre que estaba deseando ser mayor para salir sola a la calle. Me contestaron que mientras más mayor fuese más acompañada iría siempre. Para mí esta contestación fue horrible. Me acuerdo todavía de la perra que cogí y de lo angustiosa que me pareció la vida en aquel momento

Me di cuenta de que podía soportarlo todo: el frío que calaba mis ropas gastadas, la tristeza de mi absoluta miseria, el sordo horror de aquella casa sucia. Todo menos su autoridad sobre mí. Era aquello lo que me había ahogado al llegar a Barcelona, lo que me había hecho caer en la abulia, lo que mataba mis iniciativas;

Por eso me quedo, porque puedo irme.

Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

Nunca está uno libre; el que no está atado a algo, no vive... Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

Anda, déjame. Luego te haré caso. Cuando me despierte, si estoy dormida. O, si no, cuando me duerma. Pero no me hagas sombra en el libro ahora, no me rompas lo que estoy haciendo.

Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking," Jobs told the graduates. "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

The bottom line was that black economic independence was anathema to a power structure that depended on cheap, exploitable, rightless labor and required black subordination.

Independent freedom loving old hippies and independent freedom loving young eagles.. two of a kind.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

We all do as we're told but some days it doesn't seem to matter.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

She had as much use for a baby as a lion has for fins.

There's only one thing worth loving, my girl. Freedom. Always I have loved my freedom

Now that she'd found her Wild Mustang

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.

If the body becomes a special focus for women's struggle for freedom then what is ingested is a logical initial locus for announcing one's independence. Refusing the male order in food, women practiced the theory of feminism thorugh their bodies and their choice of vegetarianism.

In retreating we cling to simplicity (recognition and acceptance of being powerless), sincerity, and serenity, and to the power of truth to correct the situation. Thus, we retain our inner independence, preserve the power of our personality, and are able to go on our way without any loss of self.

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.