Quotes About Independence

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Women were not and never had been the weaker sex, she reflected. They could make sacrifices from which men would ever shy away.

Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budu?i da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane.

after-school babysitting? She wasn't like Sierra, six

Because although we have told girls that they're as smart and as competent as boys, they still get conscious and unconscious messages that they need a man to validate their self-worth and that, to get the man in the first place, they have to present themselves in a nonthreatening (read feminine) manner.

June added, "You know, I realized after that one amazing evening I could have walked away from the marriage, and Mark and I would have stayed the best of friends. I could have said, 'I'd rather not,' without feeling resigned or embattled. I finally had a choice.

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

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

My petunias," she tells me in a flat voice, "are none of your business.

That old buffalo woman gave Nanapush her views. She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful. Nanapush then decided that in all things he would be unpredictable. As he had completely lost trust in authority, he decided to stay away from others and to think for himself, even to do the most ridiculous things that occurred to him.

In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These

No, you have to look like everyone else, then you'll get by and no one will suspect you.

The world went on the same after all. The same things happened every morning. So what if they did not like her? She would go on the same.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

La libertad es el mejor marido.

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In

At a certain age, especially after certain hardships, you only want one thing: to be left alone! ...or better still, you'd like people to think you're dead! in a recent poll on 'what the young people think', they all thought I was dead... died in the Greenland! Not bad!

Nigdy niczego nie potrzebuj?... Odmawiam wszystkiego... Nie chc? ani poca?unku... ani r?cznika! Chc? tylko pogr??a? si? we wspomnieniach!... I ?eby zostawiono mnie w spokoju!... Wszystkie wspomnienia!... Okoliczno?ci! To wszystko, czego sobie ?ycz?!...

Well. I'm not a poet, I'm just a woman. And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don't, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him not me. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.

I thought you'd be pleased.' 'At the idea of anybody coming to take Meg away? No, thank you.' 'You'll feel better about it when somebody comes to take you away.' 'I'd like to see any one try it,' cried Jo, fiercely. 'So should I!' and Laurie chuckled at the idea.

You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

the belief they didn't need their

I hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.