Quotes About Independence

When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

Last week in an airport, a place I so often am, I noticed that the clerk who was helping me didn't ask me if I wanted a wheelchair, as I guess age guidelines required her to do. She just smiled and said she could see I didn't need one. On my return, another airline clerk looked only at her computer and so ordered a wheelchair, complete with attendant, that might have been needed somewhere else. To one, I was an individual human being. To the other, I was a group.

the love of independence and possibilities

I can go on the road—because I can come home. I come home—because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

Carolyn Heilbrun's

Je peux partir parce que j'ai une maison qui m'attend. Je peux rentrer parce que je suis libre de partir. C'est l'alternance qui donne toute sa saveur à chacun de ces modes de vies. C'est à la fois très ancien et très moderne. Nous avons besoin des deux.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously For its Self

self-esteem as the prerequisite for democracy – and for equal power within a democracy

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

I've never let myself dwell on what other people think of me......You can never change their minds so why waste time trying? Why agonize over it? better to concentrate on more important things.

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

If I know my Rachel, she will do what she wants to do. And perhaps that is the best.

No one else can nurture my personal faith in God. Only I can do that. No one else can get my body to the gym or limit my sugar intake. I have the final decision on those responsibilities.

My condition determines my conditions, my conditions don't determine my condition.

The likeness of a man is quite independent; everywhere that it stands, it stands for itself, and we do not require it to mark the site of a particular grave. But I must acknowledge to you to having a strange feeling; even to likenesses I have a kind of disinclination. Whenever I see them they seem to be silently reproaching me. They point to something far away from us,—gone from us; and they remind me how difficult it is to pay right honor to the present.

Solo merece la vida y la libertad aquel que tiene que conquistarlas todos los días. Y así, rodeados de peligros, el niño, el adulto y el anciano viven provechosamente sus años. Quiero ver una multitud así, vivir en una tierra libre con un pueblo libre.

None are more enslaved than those who think they are free.

En helaas hebben huwelijken in het algemeen iets lomps. Ze bederven de tederste verhoudingen, en dat komt toch eigenlijk alleen door de botte zekerheid waarvan ten minste één partij profiteert. Alles is vanzelfsprekend en men lijkt de verbintenis alleen gesloten te hebben opdat beiden hun eigen gang kunnen gaan.

Volk und Knecht und Ãœberwinder Sie gestehen, zu jeder Zeit, Hoechtes Glueck der Erdenkinder Sei nur die Personlichkeit.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.