Quotes About Independence

That's quite different. I told you I wouldn't want to tie my life to any of the boys that are round Tarleton now, but I never made any sweepin' generalities.

Os americanos], conquanto se mostrem dispostos, e até ansiosos, por ser escravos, sempre se recusaram, obstinadamente, a ser camponeses.

Living rather ascetically, travelling third-class when he was alone, with the cheapest wine, and good care of his clothes, and penalizing himself for any extravagances, he maintained a qualified financial independence.

J'ai voulu les quitter, mais ils ont refusé de me laisser partir — ma présence leur semblait sans doute plus rassurante qu'une complète solitude.

She did not want him to be like other men, yet here were the same exigent demands, as if he wanted to take some of herself away carry it off in his pocket.

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

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.

No,' she said; 'I'd never marry again. I've got my two children and I want myself for them. I like you--I like all clever men, you more than any--but you know me well enough to know that I'd never marry a clever man--' She broke off suddenly.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

She won't marry him, but a girl doesn't have to marry a man to break his heart.

you can lope about and get bored and then lope somewhere else, and you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony. If I were born a hundred years from now, well and good, but now what's in store for me—I have to marry, that goes without saying.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

Amerikal?lar?n ara s?ra toprak kölesi olmay? istedikleri olur, ama köylü s?n?f?ndan olmaya kar?? hep direnmiÅŸlerdir.

You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Brave girls don't cry.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.

They always wanted too much from her, something she could not give. She had told him over and over she would not marry him or ever live with him. But, typical of most men, they always believed she didn't really mean what she said and would change her mind. She never did. Why did they always have to push her into a corner and get so upset? She didn't want to live with anybody. She liked being alone. She hated anybody grabbing at her, trying to smother her.

Of course, she seems happy, Mabel," said Mrs. Gumms, "but you know, no woman is really happy without a home and children." Mrs. Bell said, "I'm not so sure about that. Oh, not that I don't love Lloyd and the children, but still…it might be nice to have a little time to myself every once in a while.

Victoria Principal—she

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

don't. So there.

believe each person is responsible for their own happiness. To depend on other people to make you happy is a mistake.