Quotes About Independence

No, I won't help you. No I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

I don't want to be a creature, shaped by their hands and quickened with their blood. Something made like a doll, from snow and sticks. An assemblage of parts, stranger even than the sluagh.

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am going to be something else." "Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary," Taryn says, which is undoubtedly true, but still fails to dissuade me.

I taught myself to call them unmother and unfather. I keep the habit to remind myself of what they were to me, and what they will never be again. Remind myself that there is nowhere that I belong and no one to whom I belong.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

Madoc would be so proud- his little girl, remembering all her training,' she says. 'Starving off the terrifying possibility of romance.

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done being weak. I am done being good. I think I am going to be something else.

If I am to be a cat, let me give you a scratch.

And then, one day in mid-April, she had happened upon an article in a national newspaper about a growing phenomenon in the United States as well as in parts of Europe. It was called co-living. Adults taking on roommates or housemates after divorce or after having lost a partner or even after years of having lived on their own. Co-living, it had been proved, had both financial and emotional benefits.

Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I'm with him on that.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

She did not need anyone else's love when she had roses.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Do these two things every day for Huck: number one: make him feel good about himself, and, number two: allow him to figure out how to do things on his own. Those two simple steps. Every day. It's all he needs to plow forward and grow into a strong, happy man.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Félicité knew neither father nor mother, and was her own mistress from childhood. . . . Chance thrust her into the fields of science and the imagination and the world of literature, instead of loaving her in the small, tight circle of frivolous education traced for women - a mother's instruction in how to dress, in the hypocritical proprieties of society, in the arts of hunting a man.

In 1816 she was twenty-five years old. She knew nothing of marriage; her conception of it was wholly that of thought; she judged it in its causes instead of its effect, and saw only its objectionable side. Her superior mind refused to make the abdication by which a married woman begins that life; she keenly felt the value of independence, and was conscious of disgust for the duties of maternity.

What is life, my dear fellow, if you let a woman be the whole of it? A boat you can't command,

If you don't think for yourself, then you're admitting that your theory of happiness is the old dog asleep in the sun.

In order to fly, you have to be free.

why do we waste ourselves at twenty scrambling for positions just so we can work for someone else?

Dear math, grow up and solve your own problems I am tired of solving them for you.

Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.

There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.