Quotes About Independence

It's not that I would say no to you going on walkabout along; it's your life to lead and I'll always have the station to deal with, but I do want to say…I'd worry about you if you did. And I might pout just a wee bit." "You're probably ridiculously adorable when you pout.

We've got enough folks spouting those words around here. It's to the point now where even if I wanted to get married, I would resist just to keep from running with the herd.

Would your family support you if you decided you didn't want to be a cattle baron and run the family dynasty?" "Cattle baron, am I now?

Honey, you can't bring a lover to work like he was a purse dog, otherwise Paul would never leave my side." Sydney

Hey, you're supposed to be my grape, Lydia McCarthy. Why are you letting another man squish you behind my back?

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

She would not trade one set of walls for another.

I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman as the ambivalent projection of man's fears and desires, not as her own independent self, mythology translates the message that woman must respect a 'natural order of things' or risk responsibility for human chaos and destruction.

I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no.

At some point you can no longer insist that your children do this or that. I had learned this lesson the hard way. You have to let them fall down and then you can help them get back up. But you have to let them become adults.

have meant anything to anyone except me. So what?

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.

But notice that where you must do work not your own, assume these responsibilities; see that you do not allow them to be thrust upon you. What you undertake open-eyed will seldom be made later a cause of martyrdom and sullenness.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said.

I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body.

A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.

It struck her as extremely characterless for any human being to sit around waiting for execution. It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?