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Quotes About Independence

As for Barney Snaith, the only crime he has been guilty of is living to himself and minding his own business. He can, it seems, get along without you. Which is an unpardonable sin, of course, in your little snobocracy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
He walked jauntily away, being hungry, and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den—walk up to a girl—a strange girl—an orphan girl—and demand of her why she wasn't a boy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I don't feel like tame domestic joys today. I want to feel alone and free and wild.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I am no bird, and no net ensnares me.
~ L.M. Montgomery
La libertad os hará libres
~ L.M. Montgomery
There's never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he's up and off to the lobster canneries or the States.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Fakat kimseyi incitmediÄŸimiz sürece, istediÄŸiniz zaman aptalca davranam?yorsan?z özgür ve yaÅŸl? bir han?m olman?n ne anlam? var?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Bana belli etmedikleri müddetçe insanlar?n hakk?mda ne düÅŸündükleri hiç umurumda deÄŸil.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Pussy, however, refused to get down.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne.
~ L.M. Montgomery
It was nice to live where you could show how capable you were. This was her own world and she was a person of importance in it. There was a joy in her heart the clock round.
~ L.M. Montgomery
We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .
~ L.M. Montgomery
But you see what has happened and it is making a woman of her. When we have to do a thing, Mrs. Dr. dear, we can do it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Fakat hayaller diyar?nda dolaÅŸaca?? zaman oraya tek ba??na gitmesi gerektiÄŸini uzun zaman önce öÄŸrenmiÅŸti. Oraya giden yol, en sevdiÄŸi arkada??n?n bile Anne'i takip edemeyeceÄŸi, büyülü bir yoldu.
~ L.M. Montgomery
And now, Mrs. Dr, dear, said Susan, since the fall house-cleaning is over and the garden truck is all safe in cellar, I am going to take a honeymoon to celebrate the peace. A honeymoon, Susan? Yes, Mrs. Dr. dear, a honeymoon, repeated Susan firmly. I shall never be able to get a husband but I am not going to be cheated out of everything and a honeymoon I intend to have.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Not that I bother much with dress myself. Women just dress to please the men, and I'd never stoop to that . I have had a real placid, comfortable life, dearie, and it's just because I never cared a cent what the men thought.
~ L.M. Montgomery
And everyone assured him that he would never be a man until he learned how to drive. Indeed, the future was already dull and menacing with the ambitions other people entertained on his behalf.
~ L.P. Hartley
He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.
~ L.P. Hartley
Because he isn't cherished, he's allowed to aim beyond his parents' petty goals. He can leave all of them behind.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.
~ Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.
~ Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
Young things mainly belong to themselves. How they grow up depends on who gets attached to them.
~ Larry McMurtry
You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.
~ Larry McMurtry
Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.
~ Larry McMurtry