Quotes About Independence

When I rode—I rode like the wind," she replied, "and never had time to stop for anything.

We are our own gods.

I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

My only ritual is making sure everyone leaves me alone.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Remember that every man at times stumbles and must be helped up: if he's down, you cannot carry him. The only way in which any man can be helped permanently is to help himself." —Theodore Roosevelt

you will be on your way because you will have discovered that you can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve.

Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah!

Human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

I think my mother secretly hoped that I'd turn into one of those girlie girls. It wasn't her fault that I firmly resisted any attempts to mould me into an ideal daughter. You can take a girl to ballet lessons as much as you like, but you can't necessarily make her into a ballerina.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Traveling with a man is traveling alone.

I'm sure I'm not the only wife who feels that—the small relief at his absence. I love him very much, I do; but the house to yourself … No need for conversation or company or the press of his presence

had not lived the life of the girl in New York. She had chosen to go to Iowa,

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

What others think does not matter. What you think about you is what matters.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.