Quotes About Independence

Alex! Your dress!" Landis called after her. "Come down and we'll find you something else to wear!" Alexis shook her head and laughed. "I told the captain I would need a pair of trousers and he refused me! If the sight of my legs is so distasteful, then don't look!" Landis joined the laughter of the others in response to her suggestion. There was certainly nothing wrong with her legs. They all tilted their heads back as they watched her climb higher.

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

They want me to do something, and I'll do it, or I won't do it, and it'll work or not, and I'll survive or not.

I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day.

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices.

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

I don't think you realize how different it is for me than for you. You can make your way by your own wits and claws, while I must always be dependent on some male to protect me. Wits I may have, but claws I am without, and while hands are useful for writing and fine work they are no use in a battle.

There's nothing less exciting than being thought of as part of a class of beings that are all the same," I said. "You're treating me as a thing.

Do que acontecido, me senti muito livre. Trotei, adiante. Eu ia, à meia-rédea, não me instava, não pensava.

O senhor saiba: eu toda a minha vida pensei por mim, forro, sou nascido diferente. Eu sou é eu mesmo. Divêrjo de todo o mundo... Eu quase que nada não sei. Mas desconfio de muita coisa.

Pelo menos as cabeças deviam ser abertas, deviam ser libertas, para que vissem a verdade delas e não a verdade de quem as dominava.

You can't be with someone else effectively, unless you can stand to be alone with yourself," he declared. "Being part of a couple isn't the final answer. It can't define who you are.

Nowhere is it written that you have to go down with the ship if you are only dating the captain.

Today we celebrate both outer freedom and inner freedom.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Uniqueness and independence are clearly not synonyms in the mind of Benedict of Nursia. Uniqueness and responsibility go hand in hand in Benedictine spirituality. By all means I should be who I am and have what I need, but you have a claim on those gifts. Those gifts were given to me so much for your sake as for my own. The community does not exist to make me possible. Together we exist to make the gospel possible.

I've heard of men who were permanently stymied in their careers because their wives flatly refused to leave their home towns. That's not right. A man's job has to come first and women have to draw on their natural adaptability.

For ten years I was alone, I filled the days with work, with the children, and with a few good friends. And I made a friend of myself. To have a friend you have to be one. You have to learn to like yourself—which usually means getting over a few had habits. I'm sure that I grew a little wiser, and I learned something about faith.

When they were old enough to stand on a stool at the sink they washed out their shoelaces and polished their little white shoes every day before putting them away. They hung up their clothes if they were clean—which wasn't very often.

Often there's no help in the home, but there are neighbors and friends and the people at nurseries and day-care centers. All of them help a child to learn to get along with all sorts of people and become more independent. Seeing people encourages him to make decisions for himself. When he sees his parents at his own special time of the day he enjoys them more than if they were underfoot all the time.

Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and then, those tasks accomplished, to bring us to the acme of integrity, of wisdom, of eldership in the community of the world. It is a process of ripening as we go, getting stronger, getting more caring, becoming more procreative, sharing more wisdom as we grow—so that those who come after us can walk a clearer path.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.