Quotes About Independence

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

As I see it now, the perpetual stress I had been under since the age of twelve had rendered me woefully inept at accepting the goodwill of others. Those who go through healthy childhoods learn that exhibiting a suitable degree of dependence is how one gains others' love.

I want to live with you someday. I don't need a reply. That's just how i feel. It's just now, i finally have a freedom to feel that way.

He crossed the road when the signal was red, that's his problem!

I want to live with you someday. I don't need a reply. That's just how i fell. It's just now, i finally have the freedom to feel that way

Ultimately...we're all alone in this world

I want to live with you someday. I don't need a reply. That's just how i feel. It's just...now, i finally have the freedom to feel that way.

There wasn't a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying our country?

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

Whatever you do, know that you always have choices about what to do with thoughts—including the ones that belong to someone else. In

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared. Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

All men think that a woman walking alone at night is a whore.

No man wanted to be told what he could and could not do. And in that lay a well of strength from which one might not otherwise draw.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.

One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.

It's not always pleasant to do necessary things. But part of being adult, of being independent, means that you see what needs to be done and you do it. No muss, no fuss. Right?

Everyone needs freedom. If you're in bondage, get free.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.