Quotes About Independence

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

Liberty has never come from the government," Wilson had told his audience. "Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

With the advent of controlled-environment agriculture it had become nearly impossible for individual farm families to compete economically with the mass-production greenhouses, so in most of the United States it was relatively easy for a young couple to purchase an old farm property and cultivate the soil, not for cash crops, but simply to live independently.

Waarschijnlijk is het beter, dat ik van nu af aan in afzondering leef, dat is een draaglijker soort eenzaamheid dan die, ondergaan in het gezelschap van een ander.

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.

The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services that adults perform for them naturally without establishing dependencies.

The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Buying is cheaper than asking.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

At your age?' My ass. As long as I feed & support my family, do my job & do it well, I'll act any age as I damn well please.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

The inability to yield control is often misinterpreted as inability or weakness. Giving up control is often confused with giving up. 223

she was determined to overcome her loneliness. She allowed no one else to know of the inner struggle, and she fought the battle alone, realizing that no one could help her. The

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes.

A beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.