Quotes About Independence

Having grown up at the intersection of laissez-faire and benign neglect, by the time I was in high school, my comings and goings garnered little to none of my parents' attention.

The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.

If you have property, you can't be property.

The truck was its own driver, and that driver was a high-functioning paranoid.

I vowed to remain quiet, to finish what I'd started, sending Jimmy to school. He would graduate in three months, then I would insist that we leave. I would carry out my part of the bargain and I would not lose Jimmy. And so we did move to San Francisco; my husband sent me through college, where I learned, among other things, about being a class traitor. I went my own way, away from him, and threw myself into the struggles of my generation, determined never to forsake my class again.

Sequence wants to be free.

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

As time went on, the communist attack on civil society would change and become more sophisticated. In order to create competition for authentic civil society, the regimes would create ersatz 'official' civic groups, organizations that sometimes looked independent but were in fact controlled by the state.

A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code. In a totalitarian state there are no independent schools, no private businesses, no grassroots organizations, and no critical thought.

pero fue su actitud de desafío, su determinación de ser alguien que decide, y que no solo negocia, lo que de hecho le hizo ganarse su admiración. Por entonces pensaba

Let us all swear at this great moment as one man to take up the great cause unanimously, with one accord, and not to rest or cease our labour until we build that free Ukraine!' The crowd shouted back: 'We swear!

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

You're in the Courtyard. Whatever rules humans have for employers aren't my rules unless I say they're my rules. So I can hire you even though you don't have any idea what you're doing, and I can fire you for having stinky hair!

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.

You couldn't help someone who didn't want help. That was a hard, and bitter, life lesson.

She's not a monkey fuck, and she is not prey," Simon said, his voice a low, threatening rumble. "She is Meg.

Sam," Meg said sternly. "I have deliveries to make before we can play. You have to wait for me at home." He talked back, and she didn't need to speak Wolf to know he wanted to come with her and wasn't agreeing with anything she said about him staying home by himself.

Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps—the shop for paper, printing, and postage—went on as they had before.

Besides, Jester had told him that Meg felt nervous about being too alone. Very Wolfish of her, not wanting to be too alone. He approved.

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage.

Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire, Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.