Quotes About Independence

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

You get to define the terms of your life.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.

If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.

I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.