Quotes About Independence

It needs to be free. It was born free. It isn't property.

She is a kick-ass kind of girl, who not only knows what she wants, but what she should want, which makes all the difference. When you meet her in service, you'll know her, sure enough. You'll know her, and you'll love her.

She might lose everything, including her island and, for a time, her freedom.

succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

To succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.

never come across a footprint other than one of her own.

Sometimes a girl who doesn't like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she's got any common sense at all.

Having found peace in isolation, she won't put it at risk.

he knew human lives were free of the chains of fate except in one regard: It was the human destiny to be free.

it takes a hell of a man to replace no man.

As if this was more than she could imagine, Amiee asked, "What about a stove with more than two burners and an oven that actually works?" "All yours," Steve assured her.

If you don't take care of yourself, no one else will.

Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't, wouldn't rely on anyone else ever again.

He's a man, after all. They want to know what they believe they need to know, which is minimal because they are raw, uncivilized, unrefined animals. They talk endlessly about themselves and puff up their chests. Give him the basics, off he goes.

But at twenty-eight, Justine had revealed no desire to marry.

I've lived most of my life trying to please others. I don't think I can do that anymore.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them, and move forward.

True confession: My dad wouldn't leave for Haiti until I proved to him that I could change a tire. According to him, that's like the one life skill you must know for human survival. That, and how to fry bacon.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

There's something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You're free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you're free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you. —JEANNE MOREAU

Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America's growing colonies and noted: "America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths.

She is able to draw the line between who she is and who she is not on every level, so she is able to discriminate without ambivalence—whether it's about a skirt or a man that simply isn't right for her life. It also makes it easy for her to ignore the pressure to be all things to all people, and to appreciate the company of herself—with a book, a glass of wine

Bring your own body.