Quotes About Independence

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.

She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place.

For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.

Life was too damned short to constantly push your own desires down and always do what others wanted. On

the shouting below. Leaving her father to deal with Lord Seawell by himself, he and Will had each caught one of Averill's arms and ushered her up the last few steps. Since his room at the top of the stairs was closest, they'd taken

Having a mate you can control means winning every argument, because you can make them agree with you. But it's as good as living alone, or with a blow-up doll. They would do what you want, when you want, because you make it so. It's just better and healthier to have a real partner, one with thoughts and ideas of their own, and whom you can't control. It makes them special.

Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

Que as pernas também são pessoas, apenas inferiores aos braços, e valem de si mesmas, quando a cabeça não as rege por meio de idéias. As minhas chegaram ao pé do muro.

Esta outra independência não tem Sete de Setembro nem campo de Ipiranga; não se fará num dia, mas pausadamente, para sair mais duradoura; não será obra de uma geração nem duas; muitas trabalharão para ela até perfazê-la de todo.

Que isto de método, sendo, como é, uma coisa indispensável, todavia é melhor tê-lo sem gravata nem suspensórios, mas um pouco à fresca e à solta, como quem não se lhe dá da vizinha fronteira, nem do inspetor de quarteirão. É como a eloquência, que há uma genuína e vibrante, de uma arte natural e feiticeira, e outra tesa, engomada e chocha.

What do you expect to happen if you teach your child to roll joints at the age of ten? How will she turn out if she is free to pilfer the lesser of your personal pharmacy? Who will she be if she is left to find her way among adults who are lost or hellbent on losing themselves?

Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.

There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.

Maybe I don't like being different, Meg said. but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.

If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be—we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.

is not an easy thing to refuse to be worshipped.