Quotes About Independence

my mother must have said to me a hundred times that men needed to be handled right and a woman who couldn't handle her man had only herself to blame.

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death! A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

didn't often wake up in a man's bed period.

The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.

He journeyed, in this climax, from the boy who was afraid to need, to the man who trusted he could.

Don't think of it so much like running away, Mom. Think of it as escaping.

I read The Fountainhead—that philosophy was all about having a giant penis and fucking the world and then saying, 'Hey, look, world, you are forced to bear my brainchild, so boom! Suck it!' I stand by my epithet

After all, Collin had been voted among his friends as most likely to sneak out of his mother's house, steal a car, get laid, and get back home before the car was reported missing, the come was dry, and breakfast was served.

HE LITERALLY had to make every damned out himself.

It takes a woman to get a job done right. Some men can't even die properly without the help of a woman.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Lane kept trying to find her happiness in men, but it didn't work. Is that something you relate to personally?

Alongside the need to be coupled is an equally compelling need to be left utterly alone.

Life is too short to attend to other men's work. It takes all my care and attention to look after mine own.

John Adams, writing to his friend William Tudor in 1818, said, "I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes.

What I'm trying to say is, you can't wait for somebody else to decide whether you get another chance. What if nobody ever does?

and Bessie for offering. But we've done just fine standing up for

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei