Quotes About Independence

Maybe freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." She tilted her head. "Did you really just quote Janis Joplin?

I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process. So I waited until I didn't have to. Until it felt like someone fit effortlessly. Or maybe that's too easy - maybe it's more accurate to say that what was required to be with Owen didn't feel like effort. It felt like details.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

think it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

No one else has a clue what you're doing, but at the end of the day, you get to where you want to go.

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder demostrarle al mundo su viente germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad

Porque no quiero». Tita con estas tres palabras había dado el primer paso hacia la libertad. Mientras

Porque no quiero." Tita con estas tres palabras había dado el primer paso hacia la libertad.

Gertrudis got onto her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag.

Life had taught her that it was not that easy; there are few prepared to fulfill their desires whatever the cost, and the right to determine the course of one's own life would take more effort than she had imagined. That battle she had to fight alone, and it weighed on her.

Escapaba a su comprensión el que un ser, independiente del parentesco que pudiera tener con otro, así no más, con la mano en la cintura rechazara de una manera tan brutal una atención.

A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.

A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm.

That's the noise that made the Redcoats run! Mr. Paddock said to Father. Maybe, Father said, tugging his beard. But it was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes and plows that made this country. That's so, come to think of it, Mr. Paddock said.

Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up.

Why, I guess you can," Ma said doubtfully. She did not like to see women working in the fields. Only foreigners did that. Ma and her girls were Americans, above doing men's work.

The creek would go down. It would be a gentle, pleasant place to play in again. But nobody could make it do that. Nobody could make it do anything. Laura knew now that there were things stronger than anybody. But the creek had not got her. It had not made her scream and it could not make her cry