Quotes About Independence

INSTEAD OF DOUBTING SOMEONE ELSE'S LOVE FOR ME ... I decided to LOVE myself so much that it became irrelevant whether they did or not!

I only have one tip on how to get someone else to FALL IN LOVE with you. Adore, love, nurture and appreciate yourself so much, that it doesn't matter if they do or not.

I DON'T CLAIM TO BE A MASTER OF ANYTHING ... I prefer to be a mistress instead, tall black vinyl boots, red garter, tight laced bodice, long flowing hair, wicked smile …

I knew I'd claimed my own power, when I stopped asking others to approve, to endorse or to agree with me about anything.

Better to be like the falcon. Alone. Dependent on nothing but the air beneath her wings. At least for the falcon, the air had more substance than her foolish dreams of love.

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn't wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.

All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.

I want him to take her tomorrow. I want that little girl here now, where I am. I want her to be Ray's love, to bear it. I don't care that TV and the preacher at church say that children are treasures or little miracles or special. They are flesh and blood like the shell around me, a thing waiting to be molded by someone's will, and Ray wants that job. I don't care if he takes it. If he takes everyone and everything, every child from every place. I just want him to leave me.

But the moral of the tale is that the real way to see New Mexico is simply to go off on a horse, and then on and on, rejoicing that nobody knows or cares whether you ever come back, taking adventure and beauty and night's lodging as they come.

Single women making their way to individual destinies-- who in the home circle understands them? If they try to share what they have found in their further reach, who wants it?

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

Why do you need everyone married?" Christopher has said to him angrily, when Henry has asked about his son's life. "Why can't you just leave people alone?" He doesn't want people alone.

My mother told me in the hospital that day that I was not like my brother and sister: "Look at your life right now. You just went ahead and...did it." Perhaps she meant that I was already ruthless. Perhaps she meant that, but I don't know what my mother meant.

When Chrissie left for college, then Becka the next year, I thought—and it's not an expression, I'm saying the truth—I did think I would die.

I stood for a moment, watching them drive away. I thought how different they—and their lives—had become from what I had expected. And I thought: It is their life, they can do what they want, or need to do.

And then I remembered that one time, when I was pregnant with Chrissy, I had looked down at my big stomach and put my hand over it and thought: Whoever you are, you do not belong to me. My job is to help you get into the world, but you do not belong to me. And remembering this now, I thought: Lucy, you were absolutely right.

stopped coming home for lunch. He just stayed in his office

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else.

My mother told me in the hospital that day that I was not like my brother and sister: "Look at your life right now. You just went ahead and…did it." Perhaps she meant that I was already ruthless.