Quotes About Independence

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

I don't know what this Liberty thing is all about, Rachel. None of us do, yet. I pray that if we ever achieve it, we will know how to control it. And not let it control us.

felt that he just wanted somebody to keep a house clean for him and do the shopping and the cooking. He was always in the garage with his cars, working on them, doing something. All he wanted was food and sex, and that was it. Any time we did talk, it would end up in arguments.

A maiden-woman, as independent as myself, need not envy any girl the doubtful blessing of a husband. I chose to be independent, and I am, and what more is there to be said about it?

This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the only time I can be alone. Slightly less than an hour each weekday when no one makes demands.

Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.