Quotes About Independence

She had to start making decisions rather than having life make decisions for her.

Neither of them minded because it didn't really matter. Gamma was an aggressively terrible cook. She resented recipes. She was openly hostile toward spices. Like a feral cat, she instinctively bristled against any domestication

The individual who can help himself is precisely the one who wills that authority exist in the world.

Mon plus grand luxe est de n'avoir à me justifier auprès de personne.

I send notes. I'm not a chambermaid whom you can ring at every moment. Today, you know, most people act like they work at a switchboard in a hotel.

Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti.

The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.

Para cultivarse espiritualmente con mayor libertad, un pueblo necesita estar exento de la esclavitud de sus propias necesidades corporales, no ser ya siervo del cuerpo.

Le royaume de la liberté commence seulement là où l'on cesse de travailler par nécessité.

Bugüne kadar tarihteki tüm hareketler, ya az?nl?k hareketleri ya da az?nl?klar?n yarar?na hareketler olmuÅŸlard?r. Proletarya hareketi ise ezici çoÄŸunluÄŸun ezici çoÄŸunluk yarar?na ba??ms?z hareketidir.

A 'career woman,' Sylvie said, as if the two words had no place in the same sentence. A spinster, she added, contemplating the word. Ursula wondered why her mother was working so hard to rile her. Perhaps you will never marry, Sylvie said, as if in conclusion, as if Ursula's life was as good as over. Would that be such a bad thing? 'The unmarried daughter,' Ursula said, tucking into an iced fancy. It was good enough for Jane Austen.

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

Louise remembered that odd fluttery feeling of having a freewheeling baby inside you, independent and dependent at the same time, an eternal maternal dialectic.

she didn't see the point of alcohol, or drugs. People had little enough control over their lives without losing more.

One of the things Jackson liked about Julia was her independence, one of the things he didn't like about Julia was her independence.

Wronged wives were a law unto themselves.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Free men set themselves free.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.