Quotes About Independence

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Just ignore him," Dixie said. "He's incorrigible." "No way, mama. Encourage me all you want.

Cleaning women: You will get a lot of liberated women. First stage is a CR group; second stage is a cleaning woman; third, divorce.)

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" you kept asking over and over, the other time, when you were going to London. "I'll do macrame, punk." "Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" "You really think I need you that bad?" "Yes," you said. A simple Nebraska statement.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

If someone gives you permission, they can take it away. I give myself permission.

America made us heroines not wives. We hid our ladyness to save our lives

My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Again the captive was unchained and brought before them––a young girl, alone and friendless, before a convocation of trained men, and without counsel, advocate, or attorney. During the day before she had been interrupted at almost every word, and secretaries of the English King recorded her replies as they pleased, distorting her answers as they saw fit.

There were blows to be struck there that only she could strike. She must go to Compiègne. Jeanne was but a young girl. She could not realize that her allotted time was over. It is hard for one to accept the fact one is not needed; that everything can go on as usual without one, and Jeanne was very young.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Fürst! Was Sie sind, sind Sie durch Zufall und Geburt, was ich bin, bin ich durch mich. Fürsten hat es und wird es noch Tausende geben, Beethoven gibt es nur einen.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

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Freedom and liberty always refer to interhuman relations. A man is free as far as he can live and get on without being at the mercy of arbitrary decisions on the part of other people. In the frame of society everybody depends upon his fellow citizens. Social man cannot become independent without forsaking all the advantages of social cooperation. The self-sufficient individual is independent, but he is not free. He is at the mercy of everybody who is stronger than himself.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.