Quotes About Independence

Yo me digo que no, que no es el ocio lo que preciso sino el derecho a trabajar en aquello que quiero.

No hay que prometer nada porque las promesas son horribles ataduras, y cuando uno se siente amarrado tiende a liberarse, eso es fatal.

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

Be Delivered from people and their opinions of you

endured—how I endured!—for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling

But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do; And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you!

All the action adventure girls have red hair," he said. "Whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind or does as good as the guys, she has red hair.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone

Women are, by nature, disposed to relationship and connectedness; yet true relationship cannot be embraced until a woman as a deep sense of her at-one-ment. Without this essential independence from all roles and bonds, she is a potential victim for servitude.

You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.

The Berkeley psychologist had called Dev "self-possessed" and at the time, he hadn't been exactly sure what that meant, but as he played chess with Clare, the word suddenly made perfect sense. The same way Teo and Cornelia belonged to Clare, Clare belonged to herself. Clare liked being Clare, the same way that Dev had always (even when he was friendless and invisible) liked being Dev.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Guys are like accessories. If you don't like how they turn out, get a new one.

I can't change Mr. L., but I can change how I think of him. If I don't care about his opinion, his insults can't hurt me.

But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.

Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

I'm too much a man for hysterics." Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.

You always knew what you had to do. No one ever told you. You had the resolve even then. Nor were you afraid of the dark or what waited for you there. But sometimes, I wish you had been.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

I've never been lonely, just alone. I think people who can't stand being alone are silly. How do they know who they are or what they're like if they're never alone?

The same is true spiritually. Until kids get into the driver's seat, they won't know how to get anywhere. What do I mean? You can pray for them their entire lives, but if you never let them pray, they're just along for the ride. They won't know how to get anywhere in prayer.

Happy Fourth of July," he said in a voice thick with disgust. "Let's start another War of Independence. This time Let's separate from Washington.