Quotes About Independence

I can't be the only ancient woman still tottering around New York City, absolutely refusing to abandon either her life or her real estate.

Creo que nuestro planeta está habitado no solo por animales, plantas, bacterias y virus, sino también por ideas. Las ideas son una forma de vida incorpórea, energética. Son algo completamente independiente de nosotros, pero capaz de interactuar con nosotros, si bien de maneras extrañas.

We can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris! As long as I live, I shall never forget those words. That speech was certainly more stirring to me than anything Churchill had ever said.

Don't believe a single thing any cunt or bastard tells you in this world. You go find out.

I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch.

never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.

You do not need anyone's permission to live a creative life

Maybe because they didn't worry too much about me, I didn't worry too much about me, either.

Maybe this is a hallmark of privilege: certain well-bred young ladies simply cannot conceive of the possibility that somebody will not be along shortly to rescue them.

I think it's a might act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe.

So many girls get married for that same reason. Find something else to do with yourself, I say. Gosh, ladies, take up a hobby!

Ovau teie! Toa hai a'e tau metua i ta 'oe! E 'ore tau 'somore e mae qe ia 'eo! ~ Alma Whittaker

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue

A Doll's House is about money, about the way it turns locks.

Je n'ai jamais cessé, tout au long de ma vie, de rechercher l'aide d'un homme. Je l'ai trouvée souvent et, plus souvent encore, elle m'a fait défaut.

She knew about young boys—she'd spent the last year taking care of them. They were tough and reckless and yet at the same time so very sweet and vulnerable. Their cheeks were soft and their eyes apologized even as they fought to assert their independence with too smart mouths.

This was not a man to be swayed by gentleness, beauty, or sweet words. He would bend—assuming he was even capable of bending—only for reasons of his own.

I control your funds. I don't control you. And I think, Mr. Harte, that had you all the money in the world, or sat penniless in a gutter, I still would not find you very likable.

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

there are things you have to do for yourself, even if everyone else thinks you're crazy.

Besides, there are things you have to do for yourself, even if everyone else thinks you're crazy.

I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.

Better to embrace what lies within yourself than search for happiness in another,' she says. 'Don't be feared to discover your own power.

At least he was choosing who wielded power over him. There was a wildness to the thought, a freedom, that set him alight as much as it chilled him to the core.