Quotes About Independence

The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own.

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

Niente è più bello che essere in tutto debitori soltanto a se stessi.

When she was widowed, there were still pleasing qualities in her, suitable for an unpretentious everyday life, and people sent matchmakers to her, but she declined any new matrimony and busied herself with the baking of savory pies.

One can get very used to the life of nobility if fates allow, but the first order of business is for one to rely on himself.

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Admirable." Translation: Slut. "I'm confident you could have ripped the vampire's heart out with no help from Sir Conall. You would never need a hero to rescue you." Translation: Amazon.

Il me semblait voir la vie bouger à côté, frotter et moudre les êtres humains, mais sans me prendre, quoi que je fisse pour m'imposer.

Agatha didn't have an office of her own. She wrote her books wherever she found herself, so long as she had a table and a typewriter. Really, she didn't even think of herself as an author. Her primary occupation and identity was Married Lady.

Agatha was brought up to get on with things, to keep her head and never make a fuss.

I have my own strength.

there was also something in me that felt contained there; that needed a different setting in which to grow. It was perhaps a mark of my arrogance and immaturity that I believed I had to leave in order to do so.

One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.

You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

La capacidad de un hombre y una mujer para seguir formando pareja cuando están separados tiene un límite.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

When we continue to do things for our children that they could do for themselves, we are unintentionally robbing them of opportunities to become self-reliant and confident. Doing for our children what they can do for themselves also sends them a negative message either that we think they can't do it, or that they don't have to do it.

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.