Quotes About Independence

That's the whole point of an adventure. You do what you want. What you decide to do is like a mystery. It cant be planned.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

If you need someone to be around to complete you, it's something missing from inside. Find that first and then get love.

I am not a tool , so don't treat me as if I am one

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can't simply live for others.

We are in a low-investment, low-overhead distribution business in which average people can achieve wealth and independence through hard work and the legitimate movement of products and services.

It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.

I'm going to love you till you get your wings to FLY all by yourself.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

When it comes to childhood, therefore, it was reasonable to suggest that a prolonged period before independence was required once humans began to perform difficult tasks, like hunting or making pottery and baskets. Children could spend their time practicing these skills, which would better prepare them for success as adults in a hunter-gatherer society. In effect, this idea would mean that children are schooling themselves, and were doing so long before formal education was invented.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.

Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you." ~Homer, The Book of Night Women

She not no fool, Lilith tell herself. She not a sleeping princess and Robert Quinn is not no king or prince. He just a man with broad shoulders and black hair who call her lovey and she like that more than her own name. She don't want the man to deliver her, she just want to climb in the bed and feel he wrap himself around her.

Better to be with the ancestors than to live bonded to somebody else, who might be kind, who might be cruel, who might even make you master to many slaves of your own, but was still master over you.

Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.