Quotes About Independence

Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while.

What I took it to mean was: women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us. And then we wake up at age seventeen or twenty-five or thirty-seven and realize we don't know the last time we've lived life only to please ourselves.

Sometimes you just have to do whats best for yourself.

But once you finally take sail in your life, you no longer crave a captain.

I swear that I'll never again let someone rob me of my power. It's a promise I still work to keep.

longed for solitude, for space and breathing room without the thought of how someone else might be impacted. Traveling with others comes with a daily series of negotiations: Is the room temperature okay? What sites should we visit? What time should we have dinner? Can I sit quietly and read while you go out shopping? On and on. By default, I cater. And rather than feeling the need to accommodate, I wanted the beautiful freedom to choose, to please only myself.

I can show weakness. I can be real. And when I reveal my true heart, not everyone is going to approve. What I know now is that I don't need them to.

And when I reveal my true heart, not everyone is going to approve. What I know now is that I don't need them to.

Se quitó el 'de' de su apellido de casada y lo tiró por encima del hombro. Al caer, el 'de' produjo un estallido de cacerolas de aluminio rodando por las escaleras de la casa: pram pata pram porque la mujer no es propiedad de nadie, ni siquiera del marido pram pram.

Unlike the fairy tale princes, real men do not like having to save someone.

A compulsion to get married is not the same as a desire to partner.

Dan begrijp je maar al te goed waarom je nergens een volwassene ziet rondspringen die zegt: 'Joepie, ik ben een loonslaaf! Wat heb ik toch een pret!' - David (Claire's vader)

Trotseer ze, Bloem-Alice-Claire. Bied weerstand aan hun overheersing. Daar ben je sterk genoeg voor. Je bent altijd een rebel geweest, altijd op zoek naar verklaringen waar anderen de dingen klakkeloos accepteerden... Je hebt nooit toegegeven, liefje, je bent nooit met de kudde meegehobbeld. - Al

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

She has given me a way out.

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.

At least I won't die a slave," Maerad answered. Proud words, she thought, but she meant them.

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.