Quotes About Independence

Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.

Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)

What do you want me to do? Marry you? People grow up! Move away! I'm going to college, not the moon!

Oh, my God, when Ivy got it wrong, she really got it wrong. I didn't need a boyfriend. I had all the drama I could stand right here.

There's someone out there who's suited for you. Someone who has enough strength or knowledge to keep themselves safe. I bet there's a foxy young man looking right now for a woman who can take care of herself and thinking he can't have anyone either.

Quieres saber lo que significa tener hijos?-le dije mientras se sentaba-. Pues significa que a veces tienes que dejar que tu hija haga cosas que te parecen estúpidas, confiando en que, el hecho de que tú no seas capaz de hacerlas no quiere decir que ella tampoco. Que tal vez ella es lo suficientemente sensata como para salir del embrollo en que se ha metido.

I may be a pawn," I said as I locked my shaking knees. "But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off.

He vivido toda mi vida con personas más fuertes que yo. Me gusta y no me da vergüenza ser el más débil. Jamás podré invocar un hechizo y me importa una mierda que tú sepas hacer algo que yo no…

Refuse to follow where you're led (Dancing) The line begins to blur When you look too far ahead.

Man is a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness.

The imperialists now violently interfere in other countries' affairs and trample upon other nations' sovereignty. They try to justify these acts under the excuse of 'defense of human rights'. Human rights cannot be conceived separately from the independence of countries and nations.

You're a woman,' he said. 'You can't resist me.' 'I'm gender non-binary, you shit.

The command to be free is a double bind

no one else can live your life for you.

Thus the power of hegemony: we may be poor but at least we're patriots! At least we're self-reliant and we can

We were on our own; and so we became fundamentally different beings.

What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.

Autosuficiencia. Y un huevo. Somos putos monos. La clave siempre ha sido el trabajo en equipo.

Another man said I don't own my kids' teacher, I don't own my doctor, I don't need to own my house. I just want to pay the collective for it, not some landlord.

Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.

The Swiss had always slanted against the grain, always pushed against the received wisdom that tended to wash over the rest of Europe in waves of intellectual fashion, everything from details of fashion to participation in world wars.

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier than she'd ever been in her life.

Worse, there had been a few times when Serena had traveled to out-of-town speaking engagements, and she hadn't been able to

Because she didn't want any of them to know just how unhappy she was being single. Especially since Serena knew a good number of women who preferred being single and that many of them were happily living their lives to the fullest.