Quotes About Independence

If you don't like it out there, you know the door is always open to you." Because they lived in a cave, the door was always open to everyone, but neither of htem mentioned that. They both knew what Ed meant.

When this book [So Far From The Bamboo Grove] was accepted for publication, a writer friend told Yoko that now she would be competing with other writers. Yoko said, No, she would not compete with anyone for anything. 'I competed with life and death when young,' she said. 'And I won.' ... Here is the story of her victory.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

He called his horse Bicou, he called the child Bicou, and to hell with it.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

She had learned not to expect love, and wasn't even sure she wanted it. This was the most profound wisdom she'd managed to glean from the fifteen years she had spent in her mother's presence.

Nobody else gets to live your life.

The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

Like men, some grow best in company, striving to outdo the rest. Others need to grow their own way, though it may be lonely. Both have value.

Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults and spend their time like adults. They are more likely, instead, to act like children--not by being immature, necessarily, but by postponing the usual activities of adults. Adolescence is now an extension of childhood rather than the beginning of adulthood.

By 2014, more 18- to 34-year-olds were living with their parents than with a spouse or romantic partner.

No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out of the house without their parents--those first tantalizing tastes of the independence of being an adult, those times when teens make their own decisions, good or bad.

different for other reasons as well. Education took fewer years and lives were shorter, so development happened faster at each life stage. That meant more independence for young children; more working and dating for teens; marriage, children, and jobs for those in their late teens and early 20s; feeling old by 45; and death in one's 60s.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which are no less consuming.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

People called her wild, but she wasn't. Not really. She just didn't give a shit what they thought. Maybe that was what they found so unforgivable in the end.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be an adult is to be alone.

La psique de una mujer Atenea es similar al aspecto no convencional de los vestidos "de buen tono": prácticos, duraderos, de calidad permanente y no influidos por los cambios de la moda.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.