Quotes About Independence

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

Laura Oliva, A World Apart

You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee

Megan, you just single handedly set the women's movement back twenty years

In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.

I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.

You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on.

I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

Fries Before Guys

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

alone but trying to survive alone.

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they've forgotten how to hunt.

You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - - said to me by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about 30 days, when I was 18 years old!

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.

I'm a cat. You know cat's don't like to go outside. They actually drop their smell all over a place, and that becomes their place. So when you live with a cat, you actually live at the cat's house.

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?" "Mmm, " I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?