Quotes About Independence

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

not his mother, nor did he hesitate to say so.

I wanted no grand mission, no 'causes,' just a life - a quiet, perhaps a frivolous life - of my own.

The world is full of whiners. But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. They say as soon as you're born, you're dying, and everything in between is a struggle just to stay sane. And once you're out here in the wide-open world... you're on your own.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible determination.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) Have the courage to use your own understanding, is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations, much questioning, if we over-moralize, depend on the work book to work the mind, what thinking is left for the child to do?

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.

in the context of 1881] Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need- What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.

It does not pay to be possessive of a man determined to remain free.

I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.

Ye'll wish a bath this evening, and while I don't mind servin' as yer cook, I'm not washin' yer back. I won't ask if of you, I promise.

I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.

Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.

Me mam, bless her soul, tol' me tha' was the worst thing ye could be to a man—convenient.

Don't go to Joyce City, Billie, she said. You can get what we need down Hardly's store.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. Freak or fake, I'd been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?