Quotes About Independence

I'm a big, tough girl. I'll be all right. I tie my own sandals and everything.

Too much togetherness is never good. You have to stand on your own two feet.

No one should decide your future for you but you. If you don't like where your life is headed, change it.

Don't ever let a man dim your light.

Thanks for the bargain, Theos," Megara said to the young man in the marketplace who had given her a good price on day-old bread. "It's been a real slice." Then she turned with an expertly timed flip of her lengthening red hair- it was almost to her waist now- and swung her hips as she sashayed away. As Megara grew, she was learning that her charm was a tool she could rely on.

I'll be all right. I'm a big, tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.

Thea te enseñó a valerte de tus instintos y confiar solo en ti misma para salir adelante, y no hay nada de malo en ello. Pero, cuando encuentras a alguien merecedor de tu amor, dejar que te ayude también es importante, igual que tú lo has ayudado a él, ¿no te das cuenta? No tiene por qué ser todo o nada. Has encontrado a un verdadero compañero en Hércules. El amor significa que está bien apoyarse en otro.

I'm not going to wait for Father to find Olivina. I'm going to do it myself.

Sometimes kids get a mean teacher or a class they don't like or an inflexible deadline even though that child was "exhausted the night before." We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child.

We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

Can't we all simmer down a bit? Let the teachers teach, the parents parent, and the kids do the learning. Our children will be fine, just as we were. They will figure it out, just as we did. They don't need every advantage skewed their way and every discomfort fluffed with pillows. I bet they don't even need sandwich dolphins. I am a product of bologna, red Kool-Aid, and home perms, and I turned out okay.

A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.

Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.

Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

You think you're so cool just because you can walk!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU.

What other people think of you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

This is about getting mighty clear about what makes you happy and what makes you feel the most alive, and then creating it instead of pretending you can't have it. Or that you don't deserve it. Or that you're a greedy egomaniacal fathead for wanting more than you already have. Or listening to what Dad and Aunt Mary think you should be doing.

And if the answer is "let the jackass think he's right," then so be it.

She held tight to her Why. She wanted the money and success for the freedom it gave her, to take care of her family, to prove to herself that she could do it.

Decisions are not up for negotiation.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor

Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for