Quotes About Independence

I guess that there are many ways to look at being single, and none of them should include shame or feeling less valued.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

Doormats are rarely valued. Men actually like women who are not that obsessed by the man in their life.

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

Where do you white women get the idea that having a child makes one weak and unable to do one's own work?

Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.

Date night? It was always about me and what I wanted to do.

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.

She comes from fighters—her mom can drive a stick shift, smoke a cigarette, drink a soda, put on mascara, and deliver a smack to every member of the family without taking her eyes off the highway.

When you're a kid and a teen, you're not in control of your circumstances. But the beautiful thing about growing up is that you get to create your own reality and your own family. That family might be a group of tight-knit friends, that family might be a spouse and children of your own. But ultimately, your childhood realities do not have to perpetuate themselves into adulthood, not if you don't let them. It for sure takes work.

Seriously. Books like these, they want you to conform to their style. You don't want to have to go make comics for a company that will control your work.

Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times—just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live.

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced

Dad had remained at liberty ever since;

Goodness me, no,' he replied with perhaps not quite the tone of veracity in his voice he'd hoped for, 'you can leave whenever you want.

Independentistas, en Cataluña, ha habido siempre desde hace un siglo: gente con mucho corazón y poca cabeza

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance

Job hunting is a do-it-yourself activity. There is just no way around it.

Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it's universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.