Quotes About Independence

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Many women remain unmarried only because they were too smart to ever marry a man dumb enough to marry them.

Just because you miss someone, it doesn't mean you should go back to them. Sometimes you have to just keep missing them until you wake up one morning, and realize that you don't anymore.

Don't let him have the satisfaction of knowing you'll always be there waiting.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

She had on men's clothes—the hat, britches, shirt, boots, even a six-gun she wore on her hip. It had never bothered her before Rylan Carstens. She wiped her eyes. It was sure enough bothering her now.

She took a little pleasure in defying him. And it was a harmless defiance, especially if he didn't know she was here.

But the freedom of being my own boss is a wonderful thing.

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.

They looked at each other in dismay, and she knew just what he was thinking. He wanted her gone, but he needed her. She wanted to help, but she wanted to do it wearing britches. Neither of them had a hope of getting what they wanted.

I'm not waiting for you or any other man to tell me anything ever again.

She stalked toward the door and as she swung it open, she turned back and said, "You're not even steady on your feet. You wouldn't last two minutes on the back of a horse, and I sure as shootin' ain't riding to town for the doctor. So you can just forget gettin' that cast off today. The doctor wouldn't agree to that fool notion anyway.

She sweetened her voice to molasses. "So no, thank you. I won't marry you. And I'd say you're well enough to tend your own house and feed yourself, even though that's women's work.