Quotes About Independence

No one makes a better enemy than a man who has had to beg for your help.

Mama says, " Helen Michelle, a lot of women have trouble saying no and then find themselves in worse situations because they were afraid of being rude. So, if you have trouble saying no, say 'No, thank you.' Let's practice.

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.

my parents, for the hurt, helpless, angry love they must have felt as they watched me smash my way out of their protection.

to "have ideas" (tener ideas), thinking for oneself being considered doubly reprehensible in women.

the desire first to humiliate and then to eradicate those women who had demonstrated any kind of autonomy, but especially those who had actively participated in the military defence of the Republic (the milicianas).

Helen Graham

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs. She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Claiming our voice, and our selfhood, is a sacred act.

Your vagina is not a democracy. No one else gets a vote on what you do with it.

It is deeply conservative to suggest that any sufficiently difficult woman from history -- say, one who rebelled against the constraints of femininity by dressing and acting in a masculine way -- must have been a man.

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

Mabel stops looking murderous and assumes an expression of severe truculence. How the hell, I imagine her thinking, am I supposed to catch things with this idiot in tow?

I saw those nineteenth-century falconers were projecting onto their hawks all the male qualities they thought threatened by modern life: wildness, power, virility, independence and strength.

I saw those nineteenth-century falconers were projecting onto their hawks all the male qualities they thought threatened by modern life: wildness, power, virility, independence and strength. By identifying with their hawks as they trained them, they could introject, or repossess, those qualities. At the same time they could exercise their power by 'civilising' a wild and primitive creature. Masculinity and conquest: two imperial myths for the price of one.

While still a schoolmaster he bought two Siamese cats – a breed renowned for its independence – and tried to 'train them to place no reliance or affection upon anybody but themselves'. It was what he had been trying to do himself for years. 'In vain,' he concluded, with disgust. 'Far from wandering free and independent . . . they sleep all day in the sitting room, in the intervals of mewing at me for more food.