Quotes About Independence

I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

There may be times in a girl's life when it's better to be boyless, but there's no need to be joyless. Or toyless.

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

Nobody else will ever be able to save me if I'm not fighting as hard as I can to save myself.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

All of America's new jobs have been generated by independent work, which has risen by 7.8 per cent a year.65 The next time an economist boasts about America's low unemployment rate, remember that number means something very different from what it used to.