Quotes About Independence

What they didn't realize is that it was my world they were getting ready to go out into. I had been making my way in it since before they were born and had some things to say about life after cutting the apron strings that could prove just as beneficial as anything they had gotten out of their books.

I ain't askin' nobody for nothin'....so just leave this long haired country boy alone.

All children in adventure books have to be orphans.

I can hold my own with any man." "Now, don't be modest, sis, you could thrash any man I know.

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

A man's own judgement should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. Many men do this or that because someone else thought it right.

It has always been the Rule of my Life, not to justify any Words or Actions because they are mine.

You are no longer a young girl who believes that she should be out of life what is best. Just nothing you do not. A couple of times you get lucky and drop you from the sky this or that, accidentally and undeservedly, but most of the things you have to fight it alone and you can enjoy if you get half of what you wanted.

There is no education but self-education.

The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body

We thought of them as "Women," and therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything to be afraid of, and certainly more than one thousand since they had outgrown the feeling.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

In exact proportion as women grow independent, educated, wise and free, do they become less submissive to men-made fashions.

Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life — do what you want to — not what other people want you to?

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!

There are many who think in one syllable, who say, 'women don't dress to please men--they dress to please themselves--and to outshine other women.