Quotes About Independence

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

Telling an adult to go see something for themselves always works. They never take your word for it. They always, always, have to go see, and Hungry was no different.

I wasn't sad the way a spider isn't an insect.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest brand, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

I have instructed myself, over and over, to keep my notebook handy at all times, but if you told me to describe myself in one word, it would be "not very good at following directions.

she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me Yoko and me

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

love is by definition free and if he choose to go when I would have him stay perhaps I'll die a bit but I'd rather so than taste his absent minded kiss and lie uneasy in a masked embrace

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: "I did it myself!

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad around all the time, even though they act as if he will.

Of course, if adolescents are ready to take on the world—and make babies and sustain the species—it's no surprise they're surly and awful to be around when we treat them like little children today. The disconnect between "I'm grown up!" and "You're grounded" is just too great. One study found that the peak year for depression among American women is eighteen. They're ready to start out but can't get started.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving ' and then you do it.