Quotes About Independence

refusing to give him the satisfaction.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an orphan.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

The most important emotional accomplishment of the toddler years is reconciling the urge to become competent and self-reliant with the longing for parental love and protection.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

Im about to go Andre the Giant, you a sell out but I aint buyin.

I do what I do and you do what you can do about it.

Dont you compare me cause there aint nobody near me. They dont see me, but they hear me. They dont fear me, but they feel me.

You worry about yours, let them worry about theirs, cause I got mine.

Put me in the wild I be there for a while.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I want that freedom to move around outdoors, to do so without always feeling watched, threatened, restricted, or accountable to someone. To not be a babe—innocent or lusty. To just be in the woods.

Do you mind living alone?" she asked. "I've tried it both ways," he replied, "and I know it can be a letdown to come home to an empty apartment, but now I have the Siamese to greet me at the door. They're good companions; they need me; they're always happy to see me come home. On the other hand, they're always glad to see me go out—one of the things that cats do to keep a person from feeling too important.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Go fuck yourself. Or get spayed. Either would an improvement.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas.

Lilith Saintcrow

It was the same old crap-someone thinking they can push you around because you're young, because you're helpless. You had to just sit there and take it because you were under a certain number, because you weren't a real person yet; you could be picked up and dropped like a toy, left behind or thrown away-