Quotes About Independence

When you're small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

I have no particular desire for a man's guidance. And if you think it will be your duty to guide me after we are wed, then you had better reconsider your role as a husband.

You are accustomed to going your own way without restraint. You no doubt fear losing some of your precious independence." "I do not intend to lose any of my independence," she muttered. "You will adjust to marriage in time." "Now, see here, Gideon, what is all this talk of adjusting?

I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman's adventures.

parents can take neither all of the blame nor all of the glory for how their offspring turn out. In the end, she said, all of us must take responsibility for ourselves.

You must remember that I am descended from the Northumberland Ballingers, not the Hampshire Ballingers. The women of my side of the family do not care a great deal for Society's rules.

He would give Imogen another fifteen minutes, he decided. If she had not put in an appearance by then, he would abandon her to her own devices. But he had no sooner made that firm resolve than he hastily changed his mind. The thought of Imogen left to her own devices was enough to chill his blood.

Of course I won't go alone. I shall take my maid." "No," Sebastian said. "You will take me.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

These were the women who, in Eliza Haywood's understanding, were not 'placed so high as to have their actions above the Reach of Scandal', but those 'who have Reputations to lose, and who are not altogether so independent, as not to have it their Interest to be thought well of by the World'.

Interestingly, single women were prominent amongst rentiers, investors and money lenders, suggesting that wealthier women had long found trade an unappetizing option. 11

Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility."

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.

Pakistan is the country of Impossible men

No one can make you a victim but yourself.

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage