Quotes About Independence

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Dobby has no master, Dobby is a free elf.

Sledi sebe, to je ipak najlakše. (...) Bogdan ostade na peronu gledaju?i u voz dok se ne zagubi me?u drve?em niz Kolubaru, ne veruju?i da je najlakše slediti sebe.

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ?u ga satreti, moja je li?na stvar.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self.

So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn't really asked me, with a boss that didn't want me to and a town that wouldn't let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.

When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self. She didn't expect that hunky Ruthanna groupie to understand. "Your shoes look like they could kill a person, Ruthanna," AnnieLee said, giggling. Ruthanna kicked out a leg to show off a pointy-toed stiletto. "They're killing me," she said. Then she brushed a red-gold curl away from her cheek and said, "I like you.

You don't need it but

His career is irrelevant. He can change if he chooses. We'll support him in whatever he chooses. He wraps himself too much in the emotion of his circumstances to see what is plainly before his face.

I have come to dislike anything that demands constant attention, whether it is dogs, dishwashers, or finally men. I like things that are independent, and that need you only because they want you, not because they'll have a breakdown without you.

Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn't let me go. He replied, "She's not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

I mean, what happened to developing the individual, to encouraging subversion and independence? I thought that's what this place was all about. Instead, it's, you know, just the old bourgeois concept of togetherness–i.e., conformity–under the guise of PC liberalism. It's fucking oppressive, man. It's downright totalitarian.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Let freedom ring / let the white dove sing / let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning. As epigraph to Part III, quoting lyrics, Gretchen Peters, "Independence Day

Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.