Quotes About Independence

I never want to stay. I'm always ready to leave.

Preferir o medo de estar com a pessoa errada por não ser capaz de lidar com o medo de ficar sozinho.

We have the defied the day as it was set out for us

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow from shadow, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you. -Ben

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there... and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you. -Ben

I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a girl you wouldn't want to take home to your parents, but you don't care what anybody else thinks. You're in love and it's beautiful and you stay true to those things.

For women, more economic freedom translates into more sexual freedom.

I have long since stopped caring what others think, he said. --- Of me or of anything else.

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself. The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen—four hundred years afterward.

Con ng??i sinh ra Ä'ã khác nhau; h? Ä'ánh m?t tá»± do xã há»™i và Ä'á»™c l?p cá nhân c?a mình trong khi tìm cách tr? thành gi?ng nhau.

Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.

Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

It means 'female dog,'" I'd explained to my sisters, "but it also means 'a woman who's crabby and won't let you be yourself.

Following a brief period of hard-won independence she came to appreciate the fact that people aren't foolish as much as they are kind.

Live with liberty, and your imagination can soar.

Following a brief period of hard-won independence she came to appreciate the fact that people aren't foolish as much as they are kind. Peg understood that at a relatively early age. Me, it took years.

Back off, world. It's time for me to be good to me.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you are so sorely mistaken.

The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We'd all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. No one wanted to call home asking for money, but we all knew that in a pinch our parents would come through for us.

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

Having spent my life trying to fit the will of others, I was unable to distinguish between what I enjoyed and what I thought I should enjoy.

Wpasowywanie siÄ™ to nie nasza rzecz. My nie z takich, co siÄ™ wpasowujÄ….