Quotes About Independence

She was off like a bird, bullet, or arrow, impelled by what desire, shot by whom, at what directed, who could say?

She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself

a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

The only advise, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I fell at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fatter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can posses.

It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. One might weep if no one saw.

However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon.

When shall we be free? When shall we live adventurously, wholly, not like cripples in a cave?

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.

to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treach ery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.

She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself

and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction

I am alone, said Orlando, aloud since there was no one to hear.

purely feminine; with that extraordinary gift, that woman's gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be.

I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life.

Untuk menikmati kebebasan kita harus mengendalikan diri sendiri.

she was a pioneer, a stray, venturing, trusting.

That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.

Una donna deve avere soldi e una stanza suoi propri se vuole scrivere romanzi.

Mrs. Hilbery would have been perfectly well able to sustain herself if the world had been what the world is not. She was beautifully adapted for life in another planet.

Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put into practice - and her eyes filled with tears. She had won fame and independence and the right to live her own life - and she wanted something different.