Quotes About Independence

For so many years, she'd followed a prescription that she'd trusted would result in a beautiful life. Girls don't fight back. They don't get angry. They don't demand things—especially not from men. They are loyal and faithful and quiet and trusting. But slowly, surely, all of those rules had unraveled. It was time to release. To let go. This was why she'd come here.

Ik ben niet bevreesd, noch voor de ouderdom noch voor de dood, maar berusting is me schrikbeeld. Nooit zou ik aan de oevers waar braafheid en gezapigheid wonen, willen aanleggen. Ik ben nu vijfentachtig, ik schrijf nog steeds en ik zou nog tot liefhebben in staat zijn.

I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.

At first, I struggled with some of the bigger words, but Kinsella kept his fingernail under each, patiently, until I guessed it or half-guessed it and then I did this by myself until I no longer needed to guess, and read on. It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

I've never before understood that I too can be needed and wanted. I've been the youngest child for so long that I never seen myself any other way.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

To think is to differ.

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.

The courage to be something other than what one is, to give birth to oneself, and to leave one's former body on the ground. And without having answered to anyone about whether it was worthwhile.

Me acostumbro pero no me amanso.

she is a harmless virgin whom nobody needs. It strikes me that I don't need her either and that what I am writing could be written by another. Another writer, of course, but it would have to be a man for a woman would weep her heart out.

And solitude is not needing. Not needing leaves a person alone, all alone. Oh, needing doesn't isolate a person, things need things: it's enough to see a chick walking to see that its destiny will be what lack will make of it, its destiny is to join, like drops of mercury cling to other drops of mercury, even though, like all drops of mercury, it has a complete and rounded existence in itself.

Liberdade? É meu último refúgio, forcei-me à liberdade e aguento-a não como um dom mas com heroísmo: sou heroicamente livre.

For other people she didn't exist. Her only advantage over others was knowing how to swallow pills without any water, dry.

I want to see birds flying or perched in trees—but far from my hands.

Be to, kaipgi b?si susaistyta su vyru, jeigu neleisi jam tav?s ?kalinti? Kaip uždrausi jam sum?ryti savo keturias sienas jos k?nui ir jos sielai? Ar ?manoma k? nors tur?ti neleidžiant tur?ti tav?s?

Ah, hand holding mine, if I hadn't needed so much of myself to shape my life, I would already have had life!