Quotes About Independence

In the end you have only you.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Only one who risks is free.

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.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance.

Long, long before Freud, the Jews had this saying: "When a son gets married, he divorces his mother.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

For the first time it was up to me to do some real hunting instead of waiting and reacting to what other people chose to do.

After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost.

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

The wealth which enslaves the owner isn't wealth. ~ Nigerian Proverb

It was not necessary to leave to learn that. But there were other reasons to go. If a person had a child but no husband, a room but no house, a place but no home, a will but no way, and if a person was losing her son and herself, little by little, day by day, because she knew what she knew in her skin and bones but not what her sister-in-law knew in her books and pamphlets, then yes, it was necessary.

Do not be a follower, because others like it, but be different want You like it. Jan Jansen

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.

Finally, many experts tell me that the best—some say only—way to teach one's husband to learn the ropes and appreciate the volume of work you do is often the technique that is least used: leave the damn house.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.