Quotes About Independence

One doesn't need a lot to be able to live. The great thing is to be free in your work. Ofcourse it's important to print or exhibit, but if that's not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all -- being able to work without asking anybody's permission.

What will our children be like ? A lot depends on us. But it's up to them as well. What must be alive in them is a striving for freedom. That depends on us. People who have been born into slavery find it hard to lose the habit.

Despite everything, a balanced, independent, lonely way of life can give the peace that is vital. I must look for peace. I must start to do meditation seriously—there I go, thinking again in Italian terms —and Buddhism.

On 24 April 1970 we bought a house in Myasnoye. The one we wanted. Now I don't care what happens. If they don't give me any work I'll sit in the country and breed piglets and geese, and tend my vegetable patch, and to hell with the lot of them

He that cannot reason is a fool, He that will not a bigot, He that dare not a slave.

It's about 65 degrees, so it feels like when the air conditioner is up on high. I can bear it, so I'm going for a walk. Today. Right now. In the sunshine. Because I can. Because I want to. Because I'm not going to just sit around and wait for stuff to happen anymore. I'm still me, and I have a life. It's a weird life, but it's still mine. It's still mine.

Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state.

Don't be a slave to any notation;

Nothing tastes better than what one eats by oneself.

Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, I like it better my way.

Whatever anybody else thinks of you is none of your business.

Have you met someone?" "Me? I think maybe I'll go it on my own. Maybe I'm better that way. Maybe I was always better that way and it was just that when I was young, I was so scared, and now I'm not scared.

How many late dinners of ham and pickled anchovies? How many arguments over the sock drawer—blacks mixing with navy blues—until they decided at last to have separate drawers? Separate duvets, as in Germany? Separate brands of coffee and tea? Separate vacations

Fuck it. I gave up smoking. and I can give up love.

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.

acts of defiance are their own reward.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like [Chris Kimsington].

I've never been one to mourn the passing of what could have been a promising relationship. When Jeff broke my heart in the ninth grade, I decided then and there that if a guy couldn't see that I was something special, I'd say good-bye with no regrets. Not that I think I'm more special than anyone else, mind you. But if a thing is not meant to be, I figure it's just not part of God's infinite plan.

I dont want to be anybody's mother. Im not done being a kid myself.Im way to young and so are you

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive.

I wanted to read someone who rose above the romanticism of most women writers. I wanted robust prose; I wanted muscle and sinew, even if it was a love story.