Quotes About Independence

The good thing about living alone is, you can say things out loud without worrying about how crazy they sound.

I can feel Luke behind me, his weight shifting. "I'm a human being," I tell the waitress quietly. "I am not your entertainment." There may be a change in those eyes, a softening. But I'm not sure. It's probably my imagination. Luke hands me my purse and phone, which is still powered off. I may never turn it on again.

You would choose to have no power with him when you could have all the power in the world with me?" I lifted my chin. "That is not the choice, Ido. I choose the dragons and the land. Not my own ambition. Or yours.

It was also true that after I learned about coverture from my reading, I became less and less inclined to hand over my half of our inherited fortune and all my legal and property rights—including the rights of my own body—to a husband.

was also true that after I learned about coverture from my reading, I became less and less inclined to hand over my half of our inherited fortune and all my legal and property rights—including the rights of my own body—to a husband. It would have to be a grand love, indeed, for me to willingly merge so completely with a man that I was all but legally obliterated.

This book is dedicated to all the women out there who no longer have the patience or desire to put up with any nonsense.

As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.

She's never really wanted to be the only person, she's never been such a fan of being alone.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.

I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.

What she loved was being admired, being wanted, being pursued—but she did not think she wanted ever to be caught.

Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves a good-humoured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr a godly matron who was nevertheless all too human when it came to a handsome rogue.

There are in the world no such men as self-made men. The term implies an individual independence of the past and present which can never exist. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "SELF-MADE MEN

peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry;

We shall not have the Algerians with us, if they do not want that themselves.... The era of the European administration of the indigenous peoples has run its course.

At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single Arab nation, but due to the famous independent streak ingrained in the Arab personality, nothing came of those efforts. In fact, the Middle East has suffered from numerous uprisings, wars, and violent revolutions since the end of World War I right up to the present day.

Do you have children?" "Yes," I say. "Do they make their own beds?" "Well, sometimes," I reply. "You should encourage them to make their own beds," she says. "It's good training for life.

She shook her head. "I won't go." His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. "You say that as if you have a choice." "There is always a choice.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Here's a real man!" I said. "It's been pretty transparent all along that other people's opinions about these things wouldn't be enough for you.

Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

In the tightest communities, at least since the days of Odysseus, there is something in man that wants out and senses that his development is stunted by being just a part of a whole, rather than a whole itself. And in the freest and most independent situations men long for unconditional attachments. The tension between freedom and attachment, and attempts to achieve the impossible union of the two, are the permanent condition of man.