Quotes About Independence

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

credit set business free from dependence on the simultaneous occurrence of demand and supply.

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.

I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone.I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me.I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.

I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?

I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.

Never ask your child a open-ended question, such as Do you want to go to bed now? You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed? That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.

Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.

When I run across something so incredible that I want to show it to someone else. The problem is, when you make the choice to be a loner, you lose that privilege.

You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

I had once left Coop because I wanted to see if I could be the best, if I could make my own way in the world. But living for months with the Fishers made me se the value of intrinsically knowing there was someone to help me up if I stumbled. -Ellie, Plain Truth

I've always sort of wondered though: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans, I say. Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers

Don't go fighting my battles for me.

she never wore makeup—just those sharp features, take it or leave it.

Her best friend is me; her second-best friend is herself.

She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.