Quotes About Independence

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

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Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no. During

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

Contraviniendo consejos abrí el balcón de la sala, solo para oler la cercanía del bosque. Para mi nunca seria peligroso. Pese a las advertencias recibidas, el bosque seguia siendo en mi imaginación y en mis sentimientos el único mundo habitable.

The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two sons; full of blessings and love. I can guide them, pray for their goals to be achieved, and follow a good path; but ultimately it will be up to them to live their own lives and make their own choices knowing there are rewards and consequences.

Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered. You and Daddy encouraged us to form our own opinions, and listened when we expressed them. We were not just children in your eyes; we were people who deserved respect. That was a powerful lesson.

All films are born free and equal.

Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.

Le plus beau présent de la vie est la liberté qu'elle vous laisse d'en sortir à votre heure.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

Tandis que son corps la lâche, Marie se souvient : "Je ne serai pas ta routine." Et Steph de rétorquer : "Je ne deviendrai jamais ton habitude.

I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself.

How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is -- it can only be -- the vigor of his protest against it.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.