Quotes About Independence

A girl doesn't need anyone who doesn't need her

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I do what I like, I like what I do.

Strong women don't have 'attitudes', we have standards.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I've been asked, 'Do you mind living in a man's world?' I always answer, 'Not as long as I can be a woman in it'.

Italy has been a single, united country only since 1870. For many centuries before this, it was a collection of independent "city states." Each city state was based on a main city, such as Venice, Florence, or Milan, and had its own customs and language. Even today, many people think of themselves first and foremost as Venetians (from Venice), or Florentines, or Sicilians, and only then as Italians.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

What is the essence of our America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from".

Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they'are fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. So, lots of lonely hotel rooms, my dear.

I realized that this is the theme I return to constantly - I'm always trying to prove to everyone that I can go it alone, that I can survive, that I don't need anybody.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

Da, sve otkako je ?ovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi bilo lijepo imati jednu takvu zvijezdu samo za sebe, sanjao je o tome da drugi rade za njega i da on za to pla?a što je manje mogu?e.

Esto me recuerda a las palabras de Eleanor Roosevelt que decía que nadie podía hacerte sentirte inferior sin tu consentimiento.

Si queremos vivir como seres libres, nunca justifiquemos lo que hemos hecho de nuestras vidas en base a lo que otros hicieron con nosotros. Si lo hacemos, seremos nosotros quienes mantendremos en nuestro cuerpo la toxicidad de aquel veneno y nuestra vida estará llena de excusas, pero no de resultados.

qué bueno que tengas el valor de ser distinto y no sucumbas al poder unánime

Comprendo que para algunos el ocio puede ser fatal; sé de varios jubilados que no fueron capaces de sobrevivir a esa interrupción de la rutina. Pero ésa es gente que se ha ido endureciendo, anquilosando, que virtualmente ha ido dejando de pensar por su cuenta. No creo que éste fuera mi caso. Yo pienso por mi cuenta. Pero aun pensando por mi cuenta, podría desconfiar del ocio, siempre que el ocio fuera una simple variante de la soledad;

Nunca he podido apegarme definitivamente a nadie en particular; nunca he necesitado, no sé si para bien o para mal, el rebote afectivo de los otros.