Quotes About Independence

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

Free men are the strongest men.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

I'm more of a "let the man come to me" girl.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

A man is either free or he is not.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.