Quotes About Independence

No boyfriend?" he asked. "Nope," she said. "I don't mind being alone." But the words didn't ring true. She added, quietly, "People just can't be trusted.

The most important thing about money is that it buys you freedom. The more money you have, the more options you have.

I rise and turn back.... leaving the rest of the world to coyotes who are now running across the mountain together, howling and yipping behind me, calling for the frozen night to come.

But you are not his prisoner of war, unless you choose to be. Those days can be over. That's your call.

That was the beauty of horse stealing, though—you could always ride your stolen property.

I thought about Vic being rich. She already had the fuck-you attitude; fuck-you money might be too much.

I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?

sidewinder. I didn't even bother pretending

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

Hey, I try and have an open container with me no matter what state I'm in." She

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

Holding something doesn't make it yours. You realize at some point you're just keeping it back for yourself, because it's pulling away with equal force. You've got to cut the string from your finger and leave that wispy thread, like a baby spider on the breeze.

Everyone deserves to walk their own path.

See, everyone here's afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that's how they live, and they don't even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don't unnerstand that it's just a choice you make.

Isaac Asimov got close to the truth when he said in 1974, "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice. It was more dignified there.

I had learned by then that Maribel liked to think of herself as a rebel. And yet she managed only small insurrections.

I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine.

Si no me quiere tal como soy lo siento mucho, pero no voy a cambiar. Sissi, Emperatriz de Austria

He nacido libre, he vivido libre y moriré libre. Cristina de Suecia

No tener que obedecer es dicha mayor que mandar en toda la Tierra».

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

We're all afraid of being alone, but perhaps the thing you fear the most -not having a boyfriend- may be the thing that will give you the independence you need in order to find real love.

I was still pondering her comments, when she hit me with the bomb. She said that the only time a woman is ready for a man in her life is when she didn't need one.