Quotes About Independence

She was a mighty woman, tall as he was, and built on aggressive lines, like a battleship, with a square squat head to which the iron-grey hair was bound as tight as possible in an intricate mystery of tiny plaits. He

What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces.

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? "Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them?

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness.

In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its "jumping-off places" — settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.

Though he had earned two hundred dollars from a crop and was not working at the time, Lorenzo declined his uncle's invitation to return to Illinois because he was considering going to school

Don't blindly follow any leader.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Man living alone can do as it pleases him; if he lives among others he must bow the head to the good of all. Without strong leaders to see this done, the people will fail, the nation will break up into small, defenseless bands.

You should never stay in a relationship for good closet space.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. … We can't change other people, and we can't force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.

Si las mujeres feministas insistieron en el derecho de instruirse, en el derecho de ejercer la razón, en no encontrarse en situación de minus valia ante el monopolio masculino de la cultura, era porque veían con diáfana claridad que no hay libertad sin conocimiento.

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

History calls them a defeated people, but the Metis do not feel defeated, and that is what is important. Today, as in the old days, they play their fiddles, sing, dance, and tell their children the old stories. They work hard, as they have always done. They do not mind when they are called Metis, halfbreeds, mixed bloods, Canadians or bois-brules. They know who they are: 'Ka tip aim soot chic' -- the people who own themselves" (40).

Behavioral psychologists class intuitive thinkers as creative, alert, confident, informal, spontaneous and independent. Such people are not afraid of their experiences and are open to new challenges. They can live with doubt and uncertainty. This is also a comprehensive profile of extreme risk-takers, in both business and adventure.

No one needs to see us for us to exist. No one needs to love us for us to exist. The sky is filled with light. The world is full of wonders.

It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.

I would not be eaten, nor beaten, no skewered and swimmer I, no drowned dinner for a circle of cold companions, gobbling my guts, glutted on my gold.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.