Quotes About Independence

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

I'm a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Self-reliance is very excellent, but as for independence, there is no such thing.

You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.

Feet have no roots; everyone can fall.

This was their code: They were free to do whatever they wanted with what they got on their own, but they had a general understanding that they shared with one another, and even in a state of inebriation, they rarely forgot it.

Every Independence Day since Khoudi could remember, the protests had grown, as people had woken to the irony of celebrating freedoms that existed only on paper.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah

Doing something wrong meant that I had not pleased the person or people in charge. It also meant that what I thought, what I felt, and what I needed or desired was of little or no consequence. As I grew older, more creative, and increasingly independent, there were many situations when I acted out in unmistakable defiance of the authority figures in my life. In each and every instance when I attempted to assert my thoughts or my voice, I was corrected, punished, or both.

my freedom. And So It Is!

Fuck you. I am more than just a pair of ovaries you can put a ring on.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.

If you always depend on laws of the majority to tell you what is wrong then you are risking your own happiness and morality.

but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

Roarke: I'll drop you. Eve: No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me. Roarke: You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece. Eve: Sometimes you're my love muffin. He managed a strangled laugh.She could, at the oddest times, surprise him.

If somebody doesn't call me a bitch once a day, I figure I'm not doing my job.

I'm not putting up with this, she continued. You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done? Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

If you knew her, you'd understand Eve is no one's mark. Regardless, I wouldn't betray her for anything. Or anyone.

I can't be in your place as I don't have a fat, knocked-up ass to sit on. Yeah, you asked me for a major, and if you want to come through on it, you'll sit down, shut up, and let me work. Bitch.

Okay." Mavis nodded decisively. "Then you tear it down. You don't take no for an answer. You nag and you pick and you stick until it pops out of him. Whatever it is. Girls are good at this, Dallas." "I'm not good at being a girl." "Sure you are. You're your own kind of girl. Think of it as kicking his ass until he cracks.

It's a mistake to be too much one of your own as they'll never see you as fully in charge.