Quotes About Independence

He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears. The

Thomas did not pay much attention to his lessons that day. It hardly mattered as Mrs. Wilkinson only seemed interested in how to make an "A" and what colour was magenta and how to add one and one together. Thomas knew all that. Only that morning he'd been reading a book full of big violent illustrations of the great battles of Britain, with quite a lot of magenta in it.

I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?

I am not a doormat. I get to decide what I will or won't do in this life, nobody else, and, no matter how cute Marley Hayes might be, he doesn't get to boss me around. (Lexie)

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

You always have choices, my dear. Always. Never forget that.

Women could survive on their own and men needed a woman in their life.

Subtly, she was telling him that she had her own life, her own business. An independent woman could always leave.

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside — children have their own agendas and timescales. As they find out more about their world and their place in it, they work hard not to let adults hurry them. We need to hear their voices.

Some people might think this erratic, possibly a cause for concern. She preferred to think of it as not giving a single, solitary fuck.

It was like Tobin had told her: they didn't matter. She never should have given them that much power.

Oh, why do I even care what other people think?

West Bank women's groups argued that the time wasn't right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before questions of women's rights could be raised. The

If Islamic countries can't come up with their own principles for women's competition," she said in one widely reported speech, "then the way dictated by Western oppressing countries will be imposed on us." Iran

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence." ? Geraldine Brooks, March

Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some

This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself.

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.

that man always had been off in his own boat on some branch of the river no one else ever rowed on.

I had to own that I admired her for listening to her own heart rather than having her life ruled by others' conventions.

I've inherited a core belief, to wit: don't rely on some other sod for your emotional sustenance. Find something absorbing to do—something so absorbing that you don't have time to dwell on the woe-is-me stuff.