Quotes About Independence

What a day when a man tell me what to do.

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 to not be. I

Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing.

Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you.

I admire that a woman can do people like a man. You just get up one day and gone. No drums, no pigeons, no note, no word, no nothing.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.

Near the top of any girl's list of dumb things to do would be, 'Take a walk by yourself late at night.

In no case should we abandon responsibility for our own choice-making or give someone else's conception of what we are more weight than our own sense of self.

The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.

For instance, people who speak up for what they want in the face of conflicting peer group expectations must endure a period when others become rejecting, angry or critical. They must sustain themselves during the tension of these days (or months or years), while continuing to move in the direction they have decided is good for them. They must be strong enough within themselves to persevere and know that, even though others may be critical, they are acceptable in their own estimation. People

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

There is immeasurable satisfaction—even pleasure—in taking a big risk and fighting a battle you believe in. It's your life, your call. No one else can make it for you. AIWATT

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

Lily, the girl who'd talked back to the jock, said, "I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We're like potassium and water." The other kids laughed and I said, "Huh?" "If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts," Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child.

I am also struck by how much the poet knew her own mind, both in terms of her need for solitude and what she hoped to achieve in her work.

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.