Quotes About Independence

The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.

You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

And I will not allow you to think that you make my decisions, or made them. I am myself, not an appendage to you. Now go away. I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true. I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident." Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table. "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out.

He now felt just that. Pity for a woman who had never known love, a woman who would not let herself know it. Pity for a woman who could not choose a side other than her own.

Like most Two Rivers folk, Rand had a strong stubborn streak. Outsiders sometimes said it was the prime trait of people in the Two Rivers, that they could give mules lessons and teach stones.

Trust no-one, he thought bleakly. For an instant, he did not know if it was his thought or Lous-Therin's, but in the end he decided it did not matter. Everybody had their own goals, their own desires. Much the best to trust no-one completely except himself. Yet he wondered, with another man oozing through the back of his mind, how far he could trust himself.

Nynaeve always fought anything she had not thought of herself.

A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.

But I defied you!" "A Wise One cannot allow others to step upon her," Amys said. "If she comes into the shade of our sisterhood thinking like an apprentice, then she will never see herself as one of us.

What kind of man wanted to bed a woman who was on a leash? (Mat Cauthon)

Men who tried to stand on their forebears' shoulders rather than their own feet often found themselves shorter by a head.

Nynaeve al'Meara was what, back in Seanchan, one would call a telarti—a woman with fire in her soul.

All right, then. If she wants to be like that, there's nothing I can do.

A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.

Women do not become exhausted," Haman said

When i marry, it will be beacause I want to, not just because a man expects me to love him.

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed. Irritably

No," he said, softly, yet more firmly. More dangerous. "I will not see another person chained by your foul leashes." "Foul? They are the only way to deal with those who can channel!" "We have survived without them for centuries." "And you have—" "This is not a point I will concede," al'Thor said.

But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.

He received no guidance, no stimulation, no money beyond the few rupees he made from tutoring. But for all the economic deadweight he represented, his family apparently discouraged him little- not enough, in any case, to stop him.

Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.

Mucha gente se pregunta: "¿Qué va a hacer nuestro gobierno al respecto?", pero a mí me parece que esta actitud es parte de la crisis porque casi todo mundo espera que el gobierno resuelva sus problemas.

Entre más seguridad busques, menos libertad tendrás, por eso todas las prisiones tienen celdas de máxima seguridad.