Quotes About Independence

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

in order to function, authority must be on the side of freedom, not against it.

You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

See what I mean? You fell off. You're such a damsel in distress.

Ca te plaît de ne pas te connaître vraiment ? (Amu) — Oui, parce que ne pas savoir… C'est avoir la liberté d'essayer tout ce dont on a envie. (Kûkai)

I don't want to fight for anything. I want to just be and do, with no one saying they're letting me.

no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.

freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." ( America's Medieval Women , Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

She could hear them giggling when she was already halfway down the block, but she pretended to be deaf; she didn't care. She had calluses from being teased so much.

now that I had finally confronted him, he had lost his power over me.

I know what I'll do. I'll run away. I'll join the circus. I'll juggle cats. I have experience.

There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.

By George, the next time he found himself on the road all alone late at night, he was going to whistle along to every damn song on the radio. "That'll show them," he snarled, though he had no idea who he'd be showing nor why he nearly tore the knob off when he shut off the radio.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

But it is arrogance that keeps one alive: the belief that one can choose, that one' choice is important, that one is responsible only to oneself. Without arrogance what would we be?

When we were young, we said the hell with it and used our breasts as shields. But the tears fall so easy when they take away love.

to his mother's overprotective concern for him. Normally she would have dismissed him without a thought, but

Freedom is up to you to fly.

In short, I don't need a man to take care of me, but I want one. I want you. I want you for my husband and a father for the two children I have and for any that we might have.

From the very beginning it seemed very clear to her that if you were going to succeed in life you succeeded on your own terms, in your own style, you capitalized on your own strengths, you learnt to camouflage your own weaknesses and you didn't get caught up in anyone else's. And Fleur was going to succeed.