Quotes About Independence

Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.

Asking for help when you can do it yourself is perceived as a sign of weakness.

For a brief moment we believe, "Now I have the power to be me and do what I want.

Global studies reveal that as women become more educated and financially independent, their risk of staying single or getting a divorce increases, their happiness decreases, and their stress levels rise.

This is a free country...you can do almost anything you want.

Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.

The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.

Judith insisted he attend some crunchy little granola academy where all plastic is forbidden and all the teachers wear thick wool socks and old sandals.

sometimes it takes balls to walk away. Do it now while you can still enjoy life.

She looked great in tight jeans and short skirts, she looked great in anything or nothing, really, but for the moment she wanted no one to notice her.

I'm at a point in my life where I will not be yelled at.

You've lost your mind. -Yes, and it's so liberating.

Lacy enjoyed the quiet. She handled most of her cases alone, as did her colleagues. Deeper cuts had decimated the

That's enough. Phyllis is planning to retire too, and we want to travel the world. I'm tired of Sterling, Florida, and she's tired of Mobile. We have no kids to keep us grounded, so why not take off somewhere? Spend some of our Indian money.

Oh, yes. Nonstop. She wants to run away to Paris and study art. She wants to run away to LA and live with March, her older sister. She wants to run away to Santa Fe and become a painter. She wants to run away, period.

West Virginia elects its judges, which is an abomination.

This is Indian land, Ms. Stoltz, and all the rules that govern an orderly society, all the things you believe in, simply don't apply here. We govern ourselves. We make the laws. Neither the State of Florida nor the federal government has much say in what we do, especially when it comes to running the casino.

Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.

Some OPD lawyers were zealously committed to defending the poor and oppressed, and for them the job was not a stepping-stone to another career. Regardless of how little they earned or how tight their budgets were, they thrived on the lonely independence of their work and the satisfaction of protecting the underdog.

To her critics she was fatally

so refused to accept the usual title of Dowager Queen.

Or should they stay single and keep their independence?

On this the young Mary asserted herself, adamantly refusing to be detached from the main body of the court for very long.

Mary always preferred to ride on horseback rather than be carried in a litter or a coach