Quotes About Independence

I know you love him, Leslie. But you can't sacrifice everything you've worked for, just for a man. This is Feminism 101. You know that already.

Fenders are for cars. Leslie West Mountain

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

The Sino-Soviet conflict was not due to any ideological heresy but to the independence of the Chinese Communists and the fact that, as we may suppose, the Chinese revolution was contrary to the interests of Russian imperialism.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

A key part of successfully being Julia, it seemed, was not giving a shit if you looked weird.

He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

For a certain kind of person there is literally nothing nicer than eating breakfast by yourself on a moving train with a good book.

she was smart enough to know whose problem that was, and it wasn't hers.

A Fillory without a god. It was a radical notion. But he thought about it, and it didn't seem like a terrible one. They would be on their own this time - the kings, the queens, the people, the animals, the spirits, the monsters. They'd have to decide what was right and just and fair for themselves.

Nothing made you feel more like a fucking sorcerer than aviating under your own power. Yippee ki-yay, motherfuckers.

And at that moment, out of nowhere, Janet knew that she herself would never have children. Probably she'd known it for a while, but it was the first time she'd admitted it to herself. Let others breed. Let them, and God be with them. She would be the witness—she was tough enough to see everything break and not break herself. They also serve who fly around on hippogriffs and watch.

Remember what a good girl I was? Remember how meek and pleasing I was to everybody? For the first time in my life I could just be.

was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—he

it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—

Quentin was perfectly capable of taking care of himself, except when he wasn't.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

We were in our early twenties, playing and traveling, and didn't have to answer to anybody. It was the kind of life where if you had a problem today, you could be five hundred miles away from it the next day.

You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.I don't know what you're going to do about it,But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm justgoing to walk away from it.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Lonely courage played a part that mass obedience to the leader's command could never rival. Such courage produced heroes of the mind as well as of the battlefield, often in the same person.

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.