Quotes About Independence

I came into the world alone." She picked up her shoe and scratched the crust out of the tread. She said, "I didn't want to go out of it alone.

It is only when you take control of your life that you know you are alive.

They do as they please, they say what they think, and nobody cares, for everyone is busy doing likewise.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Don't roach me, funker," she said. "And don't shirk off in your electro-steamer. This mopsy wants to poke." --Mack Reynolds, _Commune 2000 A.D._, 1974

I always win because I live this life by my terms and conditions

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Wilson's doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state

emancipation from emancipation.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.

She wanted to tell him that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand up and confront themselves and realize that it wasn't the Party that made them do it. One day, they would be alone with their actions.

Drawing even with her, the Prince strode along at her side, still scowling ferociously. "It is not for me to tell you what to do. The wizards of Leal are the High King's allies, not his subjects. But if you were my sister or my cousin—" "If I were your sister or your cousin," she retorted, "you still wouldn't have the power or the right to change my mind!

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

Children need work experiences to develop a sense that success is a function of their own efforts.

When you allow your child to palm off responsibility you encourage the idea that someone else is responsible both for the problem and for fixing it. This attitude is bound to make your child less competent and therefore lower his self-esteem. Even when others have a hand in your child's distress, which will happen, teach your child to take responsibility for his own life.

Rebecca is asserting her independence. Her thinking is simple and egocentric: "I can" or "I can't"; "I will" or "I won't." Independence is about managing one's self. Autonomy is a much broader, tougher, and more complex task than independence. It weaves together advanced thinking, self-reliance, self-regulation, intimacy, and connection. Autonomy is the capacity to be both independent and connected to others.

You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.

So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself. "You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure to not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.

A golden cage is still a cage.

I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.

You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure not to dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.