Quotes About Independence

There is something I want to do. But it's something to work towards, not something that should be handed to me on a plate. What's the point of doing something if you know you've got someone to rescue you if you fail? I like to work hard at something and then to reap the rewards. I take pride in what I do. What's the point if I know my rich husband will bail me out if I mess up?

I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.

The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.

No matter how much you love a man, always have a stash of money that would get you as far away from him as possible in an emergency.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it, she largely loses her power of independent decision and action. She either brings her husband round to her way of thinking or goes over to his, and mostly she doesn't know or care which it is.

Since Wilfrid had introduced her to H.G. Wells, Jane's life had been different. Her horizons had widened and extended incredibly. H.G. Wells was like wind blowing through her mind. She felt strong and exhilarated after reading him. It didn't matter whether she agreed with him or not. She wasn't sure that he ever pointed out any road that she could follow. It didn't matter. He made her want to get up and fight and go on.

She had never thought she would let a daughter of hers go away like this. But what could she do? Children grew up; they pleased themselves; they grew in power to go their own ways as you diminished in power to prevent them.

It's a very good idea for everyone to learn to live single—to figure out how to get your needs met without being partnered so you don't find yourself seeking a partner to fill needs that you could equally well fill yourself.

When you are single, you have unique opportunities to deepen that relationship with yourself, to find out who you are, and to celebrate your journey in whatever relationships you may move through as you travel through your life.

Being single offers the opportunity to spend time being purely who you are. Singles enjoy more freedom to explore, fewer obligations, and the ability to lounge around the house in a holey T-shirt, playing video games, with nobody the wiser.

Be nice to your body and then go find somebody else's body to be nice to, and somebody will be nice to your body, too. Someone who has happily given themselves as many orgasms as they want is unlikely to approach their other relationships in a state of sexual desperation. Sexual self-sufficiency is an important slut skill that makes us far less likely to play with the wrong person just because we're so horny. Be your own best lover.

You get to have beliefs of your own. What matters is not that you agree with us but that you question the prevailing paradigm and decide for yourself what you believe.

If you don't want to play tennis with me, I'll ask somebody else, and if you don't want to play bondage games with me, somebody else will—our relationship will not be less for it. What we share is valuable for what we share. Period.

A great many people do believe that to be single is to be somehow incomplete and that they need to find the other half. [...] We believe, on the other hand, that the fundamental sexual unit is one person. Adding more people to that unit may be intimate, fun and companionable, but does not complete anybody.

There was nobody to help us. And nobody to stop us.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Your bike is discovery; your bike is freedom. It doesn't matter where you are, when you're on the saddle, you're taken away.

Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience.