Quotes About Independence

You are a good young man, she said. But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact. And she had already come to take life very much as a comedy in which she had a proud, nay, a generous resolution not to act the mean or treacherous part.

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?

He longed now to have the sort of apprenticeship to life which would not shape him too definitely, and rob him of the choice that might come from a free growth.

Every lady ought to be a perfect horsewoman, that she may accompany her husband." "You see how widely we differ, Sir James. I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady.

He had disliked Will while he helped him, but he had begun to dislike him still more now that Will had declined his help. That

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released. Lydgate's advice

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.

Trust to me, my boy, trust to me. I've got no wife to worm it out of me and then run out and cackle it in everybody's hearing. If you trust a man, let him be a bachelor—let him be a bachelor.

Tal como Vesálio, não posso impedir a ignorância e o rancor das pessoas. Não podemos orientar o nosso comportamento em função das tolices dos outros, que são sempre imprevisíveis.

it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

But I'll not throw away good knowledge on people who think they can get it by the sixpenn'orth, and carry it away with 'em as they would an ounce of snuff. So never come to me again, if you can't show that you've been working with your own heads, instead of thinking that you can pay for mine to work for you. That's the last word I've got to say to you.

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There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.

Self-reliant loners, who think they can do everything on their own, often make fatal mistakes and decisions.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

I would not want to be called a feminist. The feminists don't believe in success for women and, of course, I believe that American women are the most fortunate people who ever lived on the face of the earth, can do anything they make up their minds to do.