Quotes About Independence

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

the God of woman is autonomy

subservience of any kind is death to the spirit.

Without money of one's own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved that the country can live without the land.

Why you like this, huh? Why you always think you have to do things your own way? I ast your mama bout it one time, while you was in jail. What she say? ast Sofia. She say you think your way as good as anybody else's. Plus, it yours. Sofia laugh.

Whoever he is, he is not worth all this. And I will never unclench my teeth long enough to tell him so.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

Choose someone to love who wouldn't even hear of it.

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 know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

Do not be like cows grazing watching the butcher.

One good thing bout the way he never do any work round the place, us never miss him when he gone.

Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might love them.

But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand.

Sofia take up the clothes, straighten them out, stand by the ironing board with her hand on the iron. Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand it look like a weapon.

Why us always have family reunion on July 4th, say Henrietta, mouth poke out, full of complaint. It so hot. White people busy celebrating they independence from England July 4th, say Harpo, so most black folks don't have to work. Us can spend the day celebrating each other.

I also began to understand how alone woman is, because of her body.

June a good time to go off into the world

Para mí es un misterio que a una mujer tenga que importarle ni un comino lo que la gente pueda pensar de ella.

All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)

The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it;