Quotes About Independence

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying Come up again, dear! I shall only look up and say Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and

It's done by everyone minding their own business

I don't want to be anybody's prisoner. I want to be a Queen.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Più ci cavo io per me, meno ci cavi tu per te

Y no pienso hacer caso de las palabras de los mayores cuando digan: Anda, querida, sube..., te estamos esperando! Yo los miraré desafiante desde abajo y les diré: Antes decidme quién soy, y si me gusta esa persona, entonces subiré, pero si no me gusta me quedaré aquí y esperaré a convertirme en otra persona.

It isn't respectable to beg

I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else" — but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they would put their heads down! I am so very tired of being all alone here!

Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)

Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?' 'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose:'what else is it good for?' 'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked. 'It could bark,' said the Rose.

Si todo el mundo se ocupara de sus propios asuntos , el mundo giraría mucho más rápido

A schoolfellow of Vronsky's and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.

were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the

No doy nada a la gente en las manos, eso no serviría; debes tomarlo tú misma.

To have a life that is in any way detached from the megatechnic complex , to say nothing of being cockily independent of it, or recalcitrant to its demands, is regarded as nothing less than a form of sabotage. Hence the fury evoked by the Hippies-quite apart from any objectionable behavior. On megatechnic terms complete withdrawal is heresy and treason, if not evidence of unsound mind. The arch-enemy of the Affluent Economy would not be Karl Marx but Henry Thoreau.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

In school, they would tell you that life wouldn't come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don't. Don't go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?