Quotes About Independence

Why do you give people so much power over you? That M.D. behind his name just means that he's trained to facilitate your healing. You're the one who's actually got to make it happen. Therapy doesn't work unless you know what you want out of it. You're the one who has the power to change things.

He accepted neither the easy slogans of the left nor the easier shibboleths of the right. He was a man who accepted nobody's answer for any problem—"…we

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn't do a meeting on the theme she had selected.

do things because you think it's right not because others do.

Uma mulher não pode existir sozinha, sob o risco de deixar de ser mulher. Ou se converte, para tranquilidade de todos, numa outra coisa: numa louca, numa velha, numa feiticeira. Ou, como diria Silvestre, numa puta. Tudo menos mulher. Foi isto que eu disse a Noci: neste mundo só somos alguém se formos esposa.

Mulheres são como ilhas: sempre longe, mas ofuscando todo o mar em redor

O verdadeiro nome da mulher é «Sim». Alguém manda: «não vais». E ela diz: «eu fico». Alguém ordena: «não fales». E ela permanecerá calada. Alguém comanda: «não faças». E ela responde: «eu renuncio».

África teve duas grandes tragédias: uma foi a chegada dos brancos; a outra vai ser a partida dos brancos. - Quem disse isso? - Li em qualquer lado. - Aposto que foi um branco que escreveu. Deixe que sejam os pretos a escrever sobre eles mesmos.

Não é segurando nas asas que se ajuda um pássaro a voar. O pássaro voa simplesmente porque o deixam ser pássaro.

She told me that after a lifetime "in service"—living in other people's houses, taking care of other people's things, and making no judgments—when the time came for her to buy a couch, or a lamp, or dishes, she discovered that she had no tastes or preferences.

Your first period may unequivocally announce puberty, but your first 9–5 doesn't definitively mean you've grown up.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Do you want help?" "No." "Do you need help?

for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.

And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.

My friends, you don't need to do nation building in Israel. We're already built. You don't need to export democracy to Israel. We've already got it. And you don't need to send American troops to Israel. We defend ourselves.

Partisanship may be King in Washington but the rest of us dont have to pay tribute.

Swedes don't like to ask favors of each other: they keep their problems to themselves and suffer in silence. Being duktig is one facet of this: if you are duktig then you don't need any help, and as duktighet is the ultimate ideal for Swedes; to ask for help - or even to give it - is a kind of low-level social taboo.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.