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Quotes About Independence

The knowledge is as good as freedom.
~ Naomi Alderman
It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted.
~ Naomi Alderman
The voice says: There is a need for a prophet in the land. Allie thinks, but who? The voice says: Just try it on the size, honey. Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.
~ Naomi Alderman
But that wasn't my business. Esti was a grown woman,
~ Naomi Alderman
It's enough for her to know, sitting in there in the dark, that if she really wanted to she could get out. The knowledge is as good as freedom.
~ Naomi Alderman
U?ili vás poh?da? všetkým, ?ím ste, a túži? jedine po tom, aby ste boli mužom. U?ili vás lži.
~ Naomi Alderman
Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.
~ Naomi Alderman
So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.
~ Naomi Alderman
Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.
~ Unknown
Sailing was never my thing,
~ Unknown
It could be verified that no princess was ever asked whether she wanted to be rescued and carried off by a dragon-slayer to a fate (no doubt) worse than death.
~ Naomi Mitchison
There's liberty in the other scale. It's heavy".
~ Naomi Mitchison
I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
~ Naomi Novik
READER, I RAN the fuck away.
~ Naomi Novik
Historian Robert Proctor has recently documented the creation of newsletters, magazines, and journals—including journals with ostensible peer review—in which the results of industry-sponsored research could be reported, published, and then cited, as if they were independent. These included Tobacco and Health, Science Fortnightly, and the Indoor Air Journal.13 It was a simulacrum of science, but not science itself.
~ Naomi Oreskes
In the secular world, it was impossible to find a man who had not been infected by the worst accomplishments of feminism: the idea that women should be treated as men not only in their paychecks but also in their physical strength. Yes, she could open her own door, carry her own packages, lift heavy objects. But what woman wanted to be treated like that, unless you were a brainwashed Soviet comrade?
~ Naomi Ragen
The most precious thing every human being has in this life is the freedom to choose how to live.
~ Naomi Ragen
You won't take anything from me that I don't want to give you, Dalton. And that's a fact.
~ Naomi Wallace
You said I had two choices. You were wrong. I went with Option 3: burn it all to the fucking ground.
~ Unknown
fuck fate. We make our own destinies.
~ Unknown
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
~ Naomi Wolf
Independence, like honor, is a rocky island without a beach.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte