Quotes About Independence

Dolly is both Cinderella and her fairy godmother, and she has no need for a Prince Charming.

The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one.

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one. But of course if you take that path you may also find that in the end you're unloved.

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

She doesn't want to see anyone. She's happy like that, I think. Always relieved at the end of a visit.

I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

she was herself entire, and knew she could not be consumed.

Harriet's mother, Margot, is no fan of gingerbread. She stood alone over her mixing bowl and stirred with the clenched fist of a pugilist.

Do you know what lobotomy is?" - "I think so. It's when they operate and remove parts of your brain, right?" - "Right. Boyfriends are the same thing. They shrink your brain. Any female who really wants to be able to think for herself shouldn't be wasting her time on boys.

Harriet didn't wish to see someone this passionate become a walking Druhástrana, cut off from the rest of the world.

Life is also meaningful without being married', she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, 'one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make

If I have to, I can do anything.I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

I am woman, hear me roar.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Vikings, it seems, make their own way.

it's a free country, a woman can drink-garden if she wants to…

having grown up with the mantra of, 'if you're cold, put another jumper on until your arms can no longer touch your sides',

A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.