Quotes About Independence

I believe in peace, Bitch.

Even a glamorous bitch can be in need.

I must become my own owner, my own authority. I must be a home to myself, and I must find a way to live what I believe.

Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?

Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband and your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

There's a young girl in me who refuses to die.

I carried the cups out to the kitchen, and inside of me long, mysterious words began to crawl across my soul like a protective membrane. A song, a poem, something soothing and rhythmic and immensely pensive, but never distressing or sad, as I knew the rest of my day would be distressing and sad. When these light waves of words streamed through me, I knew that my mother couldn't do anything else to me because she had stopped being important to me.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

you can't depend on people who just let things happen

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself.

Minun mielestäni ainoa, joka tästä lähtien voi asua siellä, on Tuu-tikki itse, sanoi Muumipeikon äiti. -Ja sitä paitsi uimahuone on aika porvarillinen laitos. Uimahousut voi aivan yhtä hyvin pukea ylleen rantahiekalla.

How nice to be on your own for a bit and do what you like.

Todo se complica más cuando se quiere ser propietario de las cosas

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

Moomin need not have worried, for the Little My's of this world are practically indestructible.

All his life Snufkin had longed to pull down notices that asked him not to do things he liked to do.

Folk våknet sent, for det var ikke noen morgen lenger, fiskerleiet lå lydløst under urørt snø mellom husene, til barna ble sluppet ut og gravde tunneler og huler og skrek og skulle passe seg selv.

You'll never have a face of your own until you've learned to fight. (Little My to Ninny the Invisible Child)

Too-ticky shrugged her shoulders. 'One has to discover everything for oneself,' she replied. 'And get over it all alone.

The very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. Snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forst. Then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried: 'Where are you off to?' 'I don't know,' Snufkin replied. The door shut again and Snufkin entered his forest, with a hundred miles of silence ahead of him.