Quotes About Independence

Losing all hope was freedom.

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore. I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.

I just didn't want to be fixed.

My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know.

Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything, people in a group assumed the worst. They cried harder. I cried harder. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J

Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed." I write: i know girls who say that about their dildos.

Encontré la libertad. Perder toda esperanza era la libertad

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again.

Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed." I write: i know girls who say that about their dildos.

No man is an adult while his parents are alive. Until they die he is merely a performance to either please or punish them.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. In

The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free. Survivor

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Anymore, no one's mine is their own.