Quotes About Independence

I keep walking. I feel daring, light-headed. They are not my best friends or even my friends. Nothing binds me to them. I am free.

then she smiled and said that we were precious flowers, and who ever heard of a rebellious flower?

She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made. I didn't want to live my life on her terms. I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas. We used to fight about that. I am not your justification for existence, I said to her once.

women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society of dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

Yesterday was July the Fourth, which used to be Independence Day, before they abolished it.

Hell we can make for ourselves.

Moira had power now, she'd been set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman. I think we found this frightening.

I say, leave me alone, this is my winter, I will stay here if I choose

I am still a coward, still fearful; none of that has changed. But I turn and walk away from her. It's like stepping off a cliff, believing the air will hold you up. And it does. I see that I don't have to do what she says, and worse and better, I've never had to do what she says. I can do what I like.

if you want people to leave you alone you should act crazy.

take your time, leave mine alone

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.

But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down.

I'm not going to have a husband anyway, said Laura. I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

Exploited, they'd say. Yes, any way you cut it, but I've a choice of how, and I'll take the money.

and then she smiled and said that we were precious flowers, and who ever heard of a rebellious flower?

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.

I can see this idea gathering in Cordelia as well. Maybe she's gone too far, hit, finally, some core of resistance in me. If I refuse to do what she says this time, who knows where my defiance will end?

When did the body first set out on its own adventures, after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul?

He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings. as I am. I may have served his ends, but he served mine as well.

She resented, too, the nurse, or the many nurses, who had tended my father in the various hospitals. She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone - to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

Sorprende comprobar con que rapidez se pierde la entereza en ausencia de otras personas.