Quotes About Independence

The world owes me a living, and it's up to me to collect it.

I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.

You reach thirty-five as a single woman, and you're branded either militantly independent or just plain pathetic. But a single thirty-five-year-old man—now, he's the hottest thing going. An eligible bachelor.

Escape may be checked by water and land, but the air en sky are free. -Daedalus

Love with her would be a field of action, not a need. She was complete whether she won or lost the world. She was her own fortress and her own sanctuary.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met.

Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat.

they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters... ...EÅŸ gibi tatl? bir kelime kar??l???nda özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her ÅŸeyin alt?n olmad???n? görmeye haz?rl?kl? olmal?d?rlar...

And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.

Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free;

Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?

the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.

Não é verdade, monsieur, que o grande valor está em manter a própria liberdade intelectual, em não escravizar o nosso poder de apreciação, a nossa independência crítica?

Women ought to be free—as free as we are

Women ought to be free—as free as we are, he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

having refused to sacrifice herself to expediency, she was left to bear the whole cost of her resistance.

What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming out ball.

she did not suffer from her geographic isolation.