Quotes About Independence

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

To avoid being manhandled, as soon as the judge said, "Remove the defendant from the courtroom," i would say, "The defendant will remove herself." Most of the time it worked, but one day the marshals were so gung ho they jumped on me and started brutalizing me in open kourt.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has gotten their freedom, by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them

a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

Je suis féministe parce que je suis Algérienne

You can go your own way

In August 1947 on the cusp of Independence, my parents sat in the United Services Club in London with two friends, soldier comrades from the recent war. One of them – later to become a chief of the Indian army – raised his glass to the other – who became a general and diplomat in Pakistan. He said, "Let us drink to the aborted twins!" Attia records this with a sense of horror and disbelief.

Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people—the young and the old—a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the independent self. *   *   *

Life would move on with or without me, and I didn't need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.

A true alpha does the right thing, regardless of what his pack thinks,

That I could be a wolf, if I wanted to.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.

As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say… as long as he looks to white folks for approval… then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

Os jornalistas são profissionais interessantes. São como bactérias que criticam o sistema, mas dependem dele para sobreviver.

yo me quiero! Si no me ama, tengo quien me ame, ¡yo enamoraré a mi vida! Tú me sumas, pero no me sustituyes, pues si me sustituyes estaré muerta, aun estando viva.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.