Quotes About Independence

As long as we blame, as long as we avoid or deny, we remove from the realm of possibility the power to do something about our lives. We become totally dependent upon the ups and downs we create around us.

Good ideas do not need to be shouted. They can take care of themselves.

Your own heart makes you complete, and no one can do that for you.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

self respect. self reliance. self control.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

Lord of yourself, uncumber'd with a wife.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

It's as if there is no more room in their lives for parents.

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.