Quotes About Independence

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat.

On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

Excretion is his first concrete production and, through it, the child gains his first experience of labour relations. He may reserve the right to go on excremental strike or to engage in a form of faecal offensive. The excremental faculty is a manipulative device and to be baulked of the free control of it is to be deprived of the first, most elementary, expression of autonomy.

I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs!

But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man's concerns, and

or as swift as men, but did we not have the same right to live freely and make choices?

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free. And I won't.

How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.

Fly free with me.

Jannit liked Jenna, who reminded her of how she had been as a girl: a confident, taking-charge kind of person. That was how girls should be.

My Apprentice is a PathFinder," Septimus said. "I am beginning to realise that means she can go pretty much anywhere she wants to.

What would Cassi say?" Dandra muttered to herself. "Letting the girl stay up so late?" She sighed. The honest answer was that Cassi, a free spirit, would have been perfectly happy about it.

I mean, what is the point of being a damsel in distress if your knight goes off and just does his own thing?

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834), French soldier and statesman. He fought alongside the American colonists in the War of Independence and commanded the National Guard (1789–91) in the French Revolution.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.