Quotes About Independence

I just didn't want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn't want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away. By myths. By my childhood. By chemistry. My fear was, what would be left?

A fin de crear una raza de amos a partir de una raza de esclavos, dice el señor Whittier, a fin de enseñar a un grupo controlado de gente a crear sus propias vidas, Moisés tuvo que ser un cabrón.

Its only after you´ve lost everything that you´re free to do anything.

Ich bin voller Zuversicht und Entschlossenheit und verfüge über einen freien Willen – zumindest nehme ich das an …

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married

Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves.

I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not.

Primero los padres te dan la vida, pero luego intentan imponerte la suya.

Llegada cierta edad, las mujeres tienen que buscar otra clase de poder. El dinero, por ejemplo. O un arma. Llevo la vida que quiero, me digo, y quiero la vida que llevo. Me digo a mí misma: Me lo merecía. Esto es exactamente lo que quería.

Aquí no puede pasarte nada malo. No es como en la escuela. O como en casa.

Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.

Leadership can mean defiance.

Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.

God, he knew, helped those who helped themselves. But wasn't God also there to catch you if you fell?

Tell me to smile, and I'll show you my teeth.)

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

Aunt Cassandra used to relish rereading letters of Jane's "triumphing over the married women of her acquaintance, and rejoicing in her own freedom

he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

No, obviously what strength was all along was the ability to say "Fuck off" to the lot of it, to turn your back on all the suffering and contemplate, unmolested, your own desires above all.

We wouldn't be proper children if we didn't disregard our parents' most vital instruction.

It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

I am not... your Sakura