Quotes About Independence

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

I never faint, Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither.

I would not love you so well if you were less headstrong.

Happily, as you are not my husband, I do not have to give your opinion more attention than I choose," I snapped. "Good day, Mr. Hargreaves.

Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.

I've never had any desire to be loved. I prefer being feared. It gets the same results but without any hugging.

She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

It was a wonderful feeling to be grown and yet young. To be married but not settled. To be tied down yet free.

Break your own heart, or they will break it for you.

But more women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

More women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

I was aware that she didn't belong to me. I didn't mean that, on paper at least, she was another's man's wife. If you knew her, you would know that she never belonged to him either. I'm not sure if she even realized it herself, but she's the kind of woman that will never belong to anyone.

I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this is what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied.

She told me that since I was very small, I have embraced my appetites. "You always run toward what you want. Your father always tries to break you of this, but you are just like him, brilliant but impulsive and a tiny bit selfish. But more women should be selfish," she said. "Or else the world will trample you.

I was at the BP station, filling up my daddy's Chrysler with gas, when I finally heard what I think was my mama's voice in my ear. Any fool can up and go. Whenever she started saying what "any fool" could do, she followed up with how a "real man" would handle the problem

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't.

Don't make your daughter feel like she got to lay with who you want her to lay with, like you're some kind of pimp.

All this hardheaded independence isn't helping me or anyone else.

You could marry somebody else." I hardly got the words out. "It's legal." "When I want somebody else, I'll find somebody else," Big Roy said. "But if all I want is a meal, then I'll cook.

I needed her to say that it didn't make a difference, that I was myself, not my gnarled family tree.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't. I'm a proud member of the first category.

Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were — ordinary people — and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.

The fact that they came to our land, I know not why, does that mean we should poison our present and our future? Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were - ordinary people - and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.

Has not the country become independent? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do.