Quotes About Independence

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around

I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe that I could be somebody in here just for me.

A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safe pastures. I cannot fault any such man as takes what ease the world offers him.

My grandmother, Ester said, wished not to trap her love into taking her. She said a heart is a free thing, and once enslaved will mutiny....

no classes or exams, just acres of time in which to research and write—had swiftly revealed itself to be a glorified form of orphanhood.

The world too much hates a freed thought or heart.

A woman may in some circumstances acquire what she desires without the protection of a man." She regarded Ester. "If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.

What sort of life is possible—with no ground beneath one's feet except the logic of one's own mind?

She said a heart is a free thing, and once enslaved will mutiny.

What sort of life is possible--with no ground beneath one's feet except the logic of one's own mind?

A woman such as I is a rocky cliff against which a man tests himself before retreating to safer pasture

I'm diff rent! I'm diff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.

It is true, Monsieur, Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.

La pregunta es hija de la libertad.

Kediler kendilerine verilen hiçbir emre uymazlar, üstelik de insanlarla olan üç bin y?ll?k tan???kl?klar?na raÄŸmen. Biz insanlar?n öÄŸreneceÄŸi ne de çok ÅŸey var!

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love

your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be. She

I'm not unique, Chyna. The world is filled with the likes of me – most are just less free. You know where I think a lot of my type wind up?' In spite of herself, she asked, 'Where?' 'In politics.

I had no idea where he went when he was not with me. Perhaps he enjoyed exploring new places as much as did any living dog, and went off to wander previously unvisited neighborhoods of Magic Beach.

I hate the people who think we're just part of the great unwashed