Quotes About Independence

Even her beloved Warren gave up at that point -- "I don't need to know how it works, Mi," he told her at last, "I just want to see the pictures" -- and Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone.

She buried her nose in Lydia's hair and made silent promises. Never to tell her to sit up straight, to find a husband, to keep a house. Never to suggest that there were jobs or lives or worlds not meant for her; never to let her hear doctor and think only man. To encourage her, for the rest of her life, to do more than her mother had. "All

Everything that loomed so large close up—school, their parents, their lives—all you had to do was step away, and they shrank to nothing. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.

though she knew no more about them than anyone else. It was as if those words were their own independent creatures, off leading their own life—which, in truth, they were. What did you call it—surely not pride, because you could take no credit for these accomplishments, you could only marvel like a stranger at the things this being had gone on to do without you.

Mia didn't care, Mrs. Richardson realized, what people thought of her. In a way, this made her dangerous.

The first time she'd gotten a short haircut-- paid for with her own money, thank you very much-- her mother had demanded to know if she was a lesbian.

Y???n kad?nd?r. Irz?n? teslim edecek bir zorba arar. Çobans?z rahat edemeyen kaz sürüsü.

Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony.

Val la pena esser solo, per essere sempre più solo?

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

Per capire le cose bisogna studiare, non le sciocchezze che insegnavano a scuola a noialtri, ma com'è che si legge il giornale, com'è fatto un mestiere, chi comanda nel mondo. Si dovrebbe studiare per saper fare a meno di quelli che studiano. Per non farsi fregare da loro.

Reizen heeft iets geweldadigs, het dwingt je om vreemden te vertrouwen, en de geborgenheid van huis en vrienden achter te laten.

Voleva stare sola, voleva isolarsi dal baccano; e nel suo ambiente non si può star soli, non si può far da soli se non levandosi di mezzo.

You are the best company for yourself.

a big company makes a wonderful place to go and semiretire for a while if you're burned out. But if you're striving to be remarkable (which you are!), a big company is a hard place to get into the right groove in the same way that a bakery is a bad place to go to try to work off your love handles. The solution? Go independent!

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

but I am the sort of person who does not seem to need the day-to-day emotional support provided by normal civilized social contact.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

citizen was someone seen by others in the community as independent, self-reliant, and capable of contributing to "the harmony, well-being, and prosperity of the community" either because of property ownership, the capability to grow or build or make things, or the ability to direct others to do so.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish." A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.

Favorite book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.