Quotes About Independence

But when I allowed myself to think of her, I remembered the delicacy of her brown body under her orange robe, and I drew courage from knowing that she had needed nothing to guide her but her determined heart. Had there ever been a man who could claim to be as fearless? She had never even held the heavy swords and sharp daggers that gave soldiers their swagger. Khadijeh may have been a slave, but in her heart, she was a lion-woman.

To love does not mean to surrender, dissolve, and merge with another person. It is the noble opportunity for an individual to ripen, to become something in and of himself. To become a world in response to another is a great immodest challenge that has sought him out and called him forth.

Parents are only good as parents at a certain stage of their children's lives, she reflected.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. It is the simplest thing in the world to decide what you want to do – or, rather, what you don't want to do – and just to act on that.

Men can bury their past. An unmarried woman is her past. Whereas a wife has a social position. A spinster has none.

Let me tell you what you need, Edith, he said. Not again, she thought. I have just told you what I need and I know what that is better than you do. 'Yes, I know you think you know better than I do,' he said, as her head shot up in alarm.

Yet for all her solitariness, or her self-sufficiency, she lacked an overriding philosophy to help her deal with encroachments, incursions, and thus fell at the first fence.

I have no lovers, if that is what you mean. I had them once, but that was when I was free.' 'One is never free. One has only the illusion of freedom. One is never free of obligations, whether explicit or implicit. The latter are the worst.

Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.

But the fact that for the first time in her life she had managed to convince herself of her rights might embolden her to assert her wishes again.

The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to looks once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. It is the simplest thing in the world to decide what you want to do - or, rather, what you don't want to do - and just to act on that.

do not take freedom 25 for granted for she is a very fickle lover she will leave you in a heart beat 30 'cos for now she is married to colonisation a cruel and murderous spouse 35 if you were doin' time like a fine wine, brother you would make a beautiful bouquet

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

If there's one thing I've learned in all this, it's that you have to stand up for yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you, least of all the people you ought to be able to depend on." - Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

Maybe my parents had it right, and all kids need is love, fresh air and a bit of healthy neglect.

It's just that she always seemed indestructible. I never saw her tired or upset or vulnerable. She was one of those women who can face anything the world has to throw at her.

I texted to ask if she wanted to try for a quiet chat again.' Jack paused. 'She said she was fine. Nothing I can't deal with. That was classic Shirley. She thought she could take on the world all by herself.' He looked up at Holly. 'Trouble was, none of the rest of us could keep up with her.

She'd always thought he missed having his laundry done more than he missed his wife's company.