Quotes About Independence

Maybe the best reputation is no reputation. Maybe it's best not to care whatsoever how people see you. Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?

I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

I am strong, I will break your heart Unless you set me free.

If I can sing, I still am free.

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

Unless I learn to ask no help From any other soul but mine, To seek no strength in waving reeds Nor shade beneath a straggling pine; Unless I learn to look at Grief Unshrinking from her tear-blind eyes, And take from Pleasure fearlessly Whatever gifts will make me wise— Unless I learn these things on earth, Why was I ever given birth?

Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Forget diamonds or dogs- a girls or boys best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

I did nothing to attract attention. My somewhat fantastic tastes, my paleness and thinness, my peculiar way of dressing, my scorn of fashion, my general freedom in all respects, made me a being quite apart from all others. I did not recognise the fact. I did not read, I never read, the newspapers. So I did not know what was said about me, either favourable or unfavourable. Surrounded by a court of adorers of both sexes, I lived in a sunny dream.

It takes me less than a minute to pick a pin-tumbler lock, but in that minute, anyone could wander into the hallway and say, "Sky, are you picking the lock on your mother's office?" Dad. I swear I have the nosiest family of all time. First Charles, now Dad. Couldn't anyone just mind their own business while I skulked around suspiciously?

This is a step forward. You don't need to tolerate people who don't respect you. And you don't need to speak with everyone who has a grievance. You aren't Queen Daleina. You Queen Cajara, and you'll do things your way.

Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a real Texas Woman. The single truly essential ingredient that every real Texas Woman must possess is this: she must know that she is exactly as special as the state she comes from.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

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

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?