Quotes About Independence

north. The stars had blazed low over the curving hills. Her father had dropped them off hungry, to make them hunt for their food. Sharpening a stick, she had waited in the rushes.

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

He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself. ' I have to go to sleep' she'd scathe. Then she'd roll over, and so would he. They'd be lying there like two strangers who just happened to be sharing the same bed. It was in those moments she began to plot her escape.

In her newfound solitude, she felt alternately listless and liberated.

It was all very well being a can-do independent twenty-first-century woman, but sometimes she just wished her dad was still around to take care of stuff like this.

Living in a country where I didn't speak the language suited me just fine. Everything was an adventure, including buying milk at the corner store. I developed the art of getting lost... It was a safe kind of chaos, and at some point that I was cultivating my 'aloneness' in this strange place as a method for putting off loneliness.

No me importa lo que puedan opinar. No tengo interés en verme como me ven los otros. Phillipa Gordon. Ana la de la isla.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.

If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.

No use in trying to please everybody. No use in trying to please critics. Live under you own hat. Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember- pinewoods are just as real as pigsties, and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

I may not be able to do much that I want to do but I won't do another thing that I don't want to do.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

The world is independent of my will.

Die Logik muss für sich selber sorgen

Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

Os loucos são livres e vivem presos por isso.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?

In the wild, he thought, there would be almost no waiting. Waiting was what happened to you when you lost control, when events were out of your hands or your freedom was taken from you; but in the wild there would always be trying. In the wild there must be trying and trying, he thought, and no waiting at all. Waiting was a position of dependency.

her own boss. When she thought about all that, was the

Magdalena pulls me away by the arm. "I am the stronger one of Titus and I," she says over the marketplace din. "Woman are always the stronger sex." She smiles to herself. "The trick is not appearing to be so.

Tell me," said Miss Fuller, "who is behind a great woman?" She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. "That's right. No one. She has to get there by herself.