Quotes About Independence

She had refined her brain as much as possible to not give a fuck about what her father thought, and yet, every once in a while, she still saw herself through his eyes, heard his voice in her head, although it was not him, specifically, but a collective male vision, what she imagined men to be. And then she caught herself assessing her physical form, and it was not with love, no joy at its bounty, but rather through a skewed, screwed-up lens.

Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's rights? No, they wanted me to meet a nice man and get married and cook and clean for him and give them grandchildren, and that's it. You were born into a world where feminism existed and was readily available to you. I had to acquire that knowledge. I didn't know I could be on my own.

Men never really wanted your help anyway, she thought. They wanted you to do things for them, but it would never be thought of as help so much as required service

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

Yes… Obviously!" I replied. I'd just finished explaining to one of my mentors why it was so vitally important that I achieve a particular objective. "That means you don't understand where your security and well-being come from," he told me. "Your happiness, security and OK-ness don't come from outside you, so they're not vulnerable to anything outside you.

if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?

Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

You Don't Have to Worry About Trusting Other People — If You Trust Yourself

Alone is Nothing, be Different is Everthing.

Without Freedom and Trust there is Nothing to Discover.

Be not a Follower, because of others want that, be always the Leader from Ourselves. Jan Jansen

Everyone Wants to Be as Free as a Bird, but None is so Freely

cats." "A fellow named Robert Heinlein said, 'Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)

An independent woman selects her own perfume—scents to accent her style, her personality, her ambition. —DB

It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's.

If our mothers are rolling over every time we do something on their list of things a lady shouldn't do, they've been flopping like flounder since they were buried.

The thought of having another person constantly in my space and taking his feelings into account every time I made a decision was a level of overwhelming I might never be ready for.

Cats were surly and not required to participate in anything, but managed to convince humans to provide everything they needed. It was the perfect existence for someone like me, who found everyone and everything as suspicious as cats did.

Pity was for those who couldn't do anything about it.

Of all writers, [Jane Austen] is the most adept at creating both characters who seem to possess an independent existence and a narrator to whom readers feel able to turn, as if to an intimate friend.