Quotes About Independence

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

Marriage has just never interested me.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

The most out-there thing I'm saying is, 'Don't have babies. Don't get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.