Quotes About Independence

I was marching to the beat of my own drummer, and I was clearly out of step with reality.

Their dad had just pulled up stakes, left the country—and us. He said that he no longer wanted a life with so much responsibility, so the responsibility was all mine.

The very last adler leans away from the thread of the trail, as if to set me free.

Like the young of every species they escape the restrictions of their elders and seek out the freedom of the wide-open spaces.

Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy and the dogs that talk revolution, drunk with talk, liars and believers. I believe in my tusks. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies," said the gamey black-maned wild boar tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.

It's up to you." He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. "It's always up to you." He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.

Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast.

To find yourself, think for yourself. —Socrates

Strong women can be so underappreciated unless you're screaming for their help.

A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.

He'd moved out once before and it hadn't worked out; he was still paying off bills from that fiasco, but he didn't seem to realize that it wasn't her goal in life to support him indefinitely.

Today, he carefully stepped through McPherson's house, where a single half-drunk glass of wine and a plate of sliced cheese sat on the kitchen counter. The knife she'd used to cut the cheese had been left near the remains of a wedge. "Snack for one," he observed. "Maybe dinner." When he arched a brow, she said, "I'm a single woman. I recognize a meal when I see one." "If

She wasn't running away from anything, she was running to what promised to be a new life; one that didn't include her husband Tim and the Valley Star.

You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it'll all work out in the end. But don't be surprised when they figure out that you've been feeding them lies.

Besides, I wouldn't even let the Hulk carry me off this ladder!

Losing control and you taking it from me are two different things, Sara. You won't ever take it from me.

She realised that letting someone go was setting them free.

she had trained him to think she didn't need him.

These are universals, as is the fear women feel during times of political upheaval that occur in what could still be called the outside world of men--whether during the Taiping Rebellion so many years ago or today for women in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Sudan, or even right here in this country in the post-9/11 era. On the surface, we as American women are independent, free, and mobile, but at our cores we still long for love, friendship, happiness, tranquility, and to be heard.

You'll never get a marriage proposal if you have to rely on your needlework.

Pocos hombres pueden salir adelante sin una mujer, mientras que las mujeres no necesitamos tener a un hombre al lado.

Do-saeng finally joined the conversation. Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.

What can we do? We're only women, she says. But it's because I'm a woman, that I dare to go.

Las haenyeo somos fuertes y nunca habíamos pedido ayuda para cargar peso.