Quotes About Independence

Prepare, take advice, read the books, then do it your way.

Living without anchors had its consequences. It was dangerously easy to drift.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

No disrespect to your people, but we're not going to San Francisco here. I ain't wearing any flowers in my hair, Dean said.

Sie sagt, nach ihrer Beobachtung gehöre zum Leben der Frauen mehr Mut als zu dem der Männer. Wenn sie von einer Frau höre, die diesen Mut aufbringe, verlange es sie danach, mit ihr bekannt zu sein. Es sei nämlich dahin gekommen, daß die Frauen, auch über Entfernungen hinweg, einander stützen müßten, da die Männer nicht mehr dazu imstande seien.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Thus you call forth the best that is in yourself and secure the best that external sources have to give.

We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that tends to make the human mind a dependent weakling. If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do something tangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worth while, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.

Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.

I don't let someone else's idea about what "40," or "50," or "60," or any other number means inform how I see myself.

the sooner you give up on them and choose you, the healthier, happier, and more effective you will become.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Why is a woman's sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can't she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Options. She can sleep with the door open, wander around freely, come and go without someone watching her every move. She hadn't realized how much of a toll the years of judgment and criticism, implied and expressed, have taken on her. It's as if she's been walking on a wire, trying to keep her balance, and now, for the first time, she is on solid ground.

I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.

It's brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day.

Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected time and time again. And still she breathes and sleeps and grows taller. She wakes up every morning and puts on clothes. So when she says it's okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything. And