Quotes About Independence

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

You can be the lead in your own life.

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

I wish I wasn't a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction.