Quotes About Independence

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

Use your imagination, I tell my students these days, or someone else is going to use it for you.

Crecemos con el poderoso mensaje de nuestros progenitores calentándonos la cabeza y a menudo terminamos creyendo que sus deseos son nuestros deseos y que somos resposables de sus carencias

Cuando tu independencia te ha costado tantísimo como le costó a Marie, tiendes a convertirte en una gallina clueca que, sentada sobre el pequeño huevo de su libertad, arrea picotazos a cuantos se acercan.

Soy mujer y escribo. Soy plebeya y sé leer. Nací sierva y soy libre.

Ir en contra de la corriente general es algo sumamente incómodo. Puede que la mayoría de las miserias morales e intelectuales se cometan por eso: por no contradecir las ideas de tus patronos, de tus vecinos, de tus amigos. Un pensamiento independiente es un lugar solitario y ventoso.

Entonces la loca de la casa, harta de tus desprecios de viejo bobo, se marcha con el tío Celerino a buscar cerebros más elásticos.

Porque cada cual es dueño de su destino... o al menos debe actuar como si lo fuera.

Eu son libre, nada pode conter a marcha dos meus pensamentos, e eles son a lei que rexe o meu destino

Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

The Scottish clan system was an extraordinary thing. No man was any man's servant, but part of a family. Which is why your average Highlander does not walk through life with a chip on his shoulder. He is proud. He knows he is as good as you are, and probably a good deal better.

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

She finished the teacake and took a salmon-paste sandwich, and pretended to herself that Mummy and Jess did not belong to her, and that she was on her own, rattling across Europe in the Orient Express, with state secrets in her Chinese wicker basket, and all manner of exciting adventures in the offing.

She had never allowed herself to be bullied, and was not about to start.

Possessiveness smothers. [Liz Searley, 'The Stone Boy']

Self-reliance has nothing to do with selfishness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's simply a well that doesn't run dry until the day you die and you don't need it any more.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Soy hija de mí misma. De mi sueño nací. Mi sueño me sostiene.

I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.

And he understood that now, more than ever in his life, there was nothing and no one to cushion him from the hardness of the earth.

I have always resented imposed constraints, hated all the things people said one should and should not do. A woman shouldn't . . . A man wouldn't . . . People were always conjuring up a wall and telling you to stay on your side of it. More often than not, the wall was false, a cliché, an inherited and unexamined stock response to the world.

He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.