Quotes About Independence

People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people might not think so. They do not care.

There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes, but it is up to us to make it come.

I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.

Quienes recibían las visitas iban en sillas de ruedas, cojeaban apoyados en un bastón o caminaban con rigidez, sin ayuda, a la cabeza de la procesión, orgullosos del logro pero con la mirada perdida o babeando irremisiblemente por el esfuerzo.

She was armed to the teeth for any onslaught of sympathy.

You can be free. Simply put, you have to give up on Earth.

How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time?

Nikt nie mo?e wyratowa? drugiego cz?owieka. Ka?dy musi ratowa? si? sam albo jest stracony.

I was raised by a solitary woman to be a solitary child, and that was, I now saw, what I had hopelessly become.

Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.

What I'd been missing was a wanderlust that came from letting go?

Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

I'm a woman in search on an adventure

In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.

At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. I saw, too, that sooner or later, by choice or by chance most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence, in darker moods, as survival. Either way, women had to do it.

I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after? Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk. Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh.

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.