Quotes About Independence

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them. They would all three have made alternatively good courtesans or good wives not by the accident of birth but through the greater accident of finding their man or not finding him.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college--the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.

I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

At first this quality of hers somehow irritated Amory. He considered his own uniqueness sufficient, and it rather embarrassed him when she tried to read new interests into him for the benefit of what other adorers were present. He felt as if a polite but insistent stage manager were attempting to make him give a new interpretation of a part he had conned for years.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

Sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal.

I've decided to give you up, she said. Dick started - had he said anything to imply that she possessed any part of him?

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress. As