Quotes About Independence

I know you want me to leave. I understand that. But I can't, princess … You're pregnant. And you're alone." "Lots of women have babies on their own." "Not my baby, Abby.

If I choose to live a modest life, I'm a free man. If I'm forced to live a modest life, I'm a slave.

Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply went her own way, uncaring.

Here you will never learn anything just because girls do it. But it's a pity not to do things just because girls do them. Work must be done for its own sake.

Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry. (314)

She just waited. Rosie had no choice. She'd have to do it on her own. She'd do anything for Amy, even hear whatever she was about to hear, on her own. The consultant was in his office. It was as untidy as always. He didn't smile. It wasn't a bad sign. He

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

We loved our opposites so that we could free ourselves from our selves.

There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Io non ci ho mai tenuto a diventare un capo" rispose Grania. "Sono sempre andata dove volevo andare, e quando mi guardavo indietro vedevo che gli altri mi stavano seguendo.

Let him do whatever he wishes, and he will be unable to grasp on to anything to control

The word universitas means no more than "the corporation." Its first recorded appearance is in a letter of Pope Innocent III in 1208 or 1209. The first university was at Salerno in Italy, followed by others at Bologna, Paris, Montpellier, and Oxford. They gained a relative independence from their local bishops and put themselves under the control of the pope, who was likely to be more liberal than the bishops and was at least much farther away.

Man knew how to feed, clothe, and house himself millenniums before mathematics existed.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Don't wait for others to celebrate you. Sometimes you need to arrange a party and celebrate yourself.

Your job as a woman is to make sure I don't need another woman. Are we tugeza

I sought advice and cooperation from those around me--but not permission.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.