Quotes About Independence

defend women's right to be wrong, at least occasionally.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

To make big money in the investment world you have to learn to think independently; to think independently you need to be comfortable standing alone.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

You can't catch a creature like that anymore than you can catch a person. You can only create an environment they might want to live in. The rest is up to them.

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?

It's been hard. Easier was the wrong word. There's nothing easy about freedom. You have to strive. You have to make a plan and stick to it.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

I think, therefore I'm single.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ¦ If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME!

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.