Quotes About Independence

I guess you'll never appreciate your freedom as a SINGLE until you finally find yourself in the four walls of MARRIAGE.

Aquarius women are sometimes afraid of commitment but once they commit it's for good.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

I don't bake cookies. I don't want to take care of a man. I'm bitchy. I'm demanding. I want my own space and free time, and when I'm in a bad mood, I'll tell you and I'll use bad language while I do it.

She might not do it tonight, and she might not do it with that French boy, but she was going to get laid, and soon, because she was forty-three years old and she damn well needed it.

A divorcée empty nester who didn't regret her solitude? She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

Divorce hadn't devastated her. She'd felt awful for her son, but God, she'd felt free, and she'd hoped that a happy mom was more important for Sawyer than a married one.

In his eyes was everything she'd ever wanted as a girl, everything she'd given up on years before. Emma had grown weary of waiting for rescue. She'd had to rescue herself and she would never forget that.

have learned that the source of joy is not to be found in another person and we should not look for someone

WITH LYLE, I SAW the real world of wine. Our trips weren't sponsored, and we paid our way equally, allowing us to experience regions on our terms.

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

But you know you don't have to mirror that attitude, right? I mean, wouldn't it be better to be your own dazzling portrait rather than someone else's reflection

Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance

The good father does not have to be perfect . Rather, he has to be good enough to help his daughter to become a woman who is reasonably self-confident, self-sufficient, and free of crippling self-doubt, and to feel at ease in the company of men.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.

Not for the first time, I longed to tell someone that I was one of them, a sympathizer with the Left, a revolutionary fighting for peace, equality, democracy, freedom, and independence, all the noble things my people had died for and I had hid for.

As the crapulent major said, A man doesn't need balls in this country, Captain. The women all have their own.

Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others?

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

To be anti-American only makes you a reactionary. In our case, having defeated the Americans, we no longer defined ourselves as anti-American. We are simply one hundred percent Vietnamese.

What do those who struggle against power do when they seize power? What does the revolutionaries do when the revolution triumphs? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others? And is it sane or insane to believe, as so many around us apparently do, in nothing?