Quotes About Independence

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

One has to forget about being sweet, pleasant, and helpful; one has to give oneself permission to publicly dominate the other. One has to manage without the other's approval.

I find it strange that today, when so many people walk around with tiny computers in their pockets -- cameras, phones, personal organizers, iPods--there exists no object at all to slip into your pussy when you go out for a stroll that will rip up the cock of any fucker who sticks it in there. Perhaps it isn't desirable to make female genitalia inaccessible by force. A woman must remain open, and fearful. Otherwise, how would masculinity define itself?

Les femmes de mon âge sont les premières pour lesquelles il est possible de mener une vie sans sexe, sans passer par la case couvent.

Trink löslichen Kaffee. Wehr Dich.

Se mira en un espejo, se encuentra hermosa. Es la primera vez que lo piensa al verse. Ahora es cierto, porque no hay nadie más que ella para juzgarlo. Ya no tiene que preguntarse qué pensará de ella el vecino de enfrente. Ha borrado del mapa a todos los vecinos de enfrente.

Il y a une forme de force, qui n'est ni masculine, ni féminine, qui impressionne, affole, rassure. Une faculté de dire non, d'imposer ses vues, de ne pas se dérober.

cuántos artículos en los últimos veinte años se han escrito sobre las mujeres que dan miedo a los hombres, sobre las que se han quedado solas, las que han sido castigadas por su ambición o su singularidad? Como si ser viuda, estar sola o abandonada en tiempos de guerra, o ser maltratadafuera una invención reciente. Siempre hemos tenido que arreglárnoslas sin la ayuda de nadie

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear Never fear what will become of you depend on no-one Only the moment you reject all help are you free

This was the kind of woman she understood, a woman after her own cold heart.

If she would work he wouldn't have to keep her in the house. She wouldn't be crazy, and she could tell him to go to hell. Did you ever think about that, my brilliant daughter? That maybe she's crazy because she can't tell him to go to hell? When a woman can't tell a man to go to hell, I have noticed, she is often crazy.

No lo sé. Lo único que sé es que es lista, que se merece una formación y que la va a tener. Éstos son los Estados Unidos. Las chicas no son vacas que pacen a la espera de que las crucen con un toro.

People have a right to their lives,' she says softly.

As Anton Chekhov so memorably put it, 'Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of me drop by drop.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

Genuine mathematicians do not gang up, but the weak need gangs in order to survive.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

The ancient and feudal states were organs for the exploitation of the slaves and serfs; likewise, "the modern representative state is an instrument of exploitation of wage-labor by capital. By way of exception, however, periods occur in which the warring classes balance each other so nearly that the state power as ostensible mediator acquires, for the moment, a certain degree of independence of both....

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Injustice in the end produces independence.