Quotes About Independence

On the wall of his living room Billy had painted the words 'Kill the Father.' Killing the father was what, in Billy's opinion, college was all about. Who's your father? he asked Madeleine. Is it Virginia Woolf? Is it Sontag? In my case, Madeleine said, my father really is my father. Then you have to kill him. Who's your father?

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable.

When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Everyday I feel more and more like a full-fledged adult. Even though it was (metaphorically) only yesterday I was sloshing in the door at four a.m. after Dollar Beer Night, I find myself with a mortgage, four types of insurance, and a non-laundry-quarter-based retirement fund.

Anything entering or exiting any orifice on your body is your choice. I don't get a say; I don't want a say. It's that simple.

kids without constantly looking over their shoulders for approval.

Mine was the first generation of latchkey kids, referring to Generation Xers whose personal identity was, in part, shaped by the independence their working parents fostered when they left us alone after school.

I have issues with my parents, but their greatest gift was forcing me to produce my own results. Through the ups and downs of my life, my work ethic is my most prized characteristic. No matter what kind of pinch I'm in, I can fight my way to the other side with grit and determination.

What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

I don't need "support." I need . . . I need . . . It occurs to me that I have no idea how that sentence might end.

If it's comfortable it's not feminist - unless of course we're talking about shoes.

At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.

It certainly wasn't as though I was left completely on my own. I knew that if I ever really needed help, my mother would be happy to outsource it to the most qualified consultants.

Other couples are living separately ever after

By seventh grade, the notes stopped and it was assumed that I'd know how to fend for myself for dinner if there was a ten-dollar bill on the table. There were three dinner options at my house. In reverse order of preference: Number three—broiled chicken dusted with paprika. Number two—ten on the table. And number one—dinner with Mom and her boyfriend, David, at a five-star restaurant.

Ask any single parent whether they'd like an extra set of hands around the house and they'd take it." They'd take it if it weren't the set of hands belonging to the rat bastard who asked for a divorce the same day the pregnancy test read positive.

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat.

That woman needs protecting like Rambo needs a bodyguard.

Don't even think about it. Well, when can I walk by myself? When you get your driver's license. You always, always say that. Dillie scowled at him. That's when everything happens. It's going to be a busy day, Phin agreed.

Nothing matters except what it takes to survive. You remember this, Madeline: You're born alone and you die alone. In between, you make deals.

I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges.

Paris is Rory without Lorelai's influence to draw her out of her books and into the wider world.