Quotes About Independence

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Later on, I see how often therapists keep patients coming to them, not so much for the benefit of the patients but to satisfy the therapists' need to help - and because of their own inability to recognize the clients' actual independence. (148)

That's why they can't get ahead. Wouldn't look for work, just living like they still slaves. Sitting down on they backside talking 'bout slavery, slavery. Everything for them is slavery and white man fault. Blaming slavery when is they own laziness causing they problems, with they no-ambition selves. Still taking what massa give them and calling it welfare." Margaret

Thus capitalism, which elevated patriarchy by turning its major value, power, into the only value, also destabilized it by enabling women for the first time in history to become economically independent.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.

I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist, and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.

Creators are hard-driving, focused, dominant, independent risk-takers.

We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra...these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra

you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

The man who plays alone never loses.' " Guiliano

though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian.

Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.

Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.

Sólo la libertad le interesaba ahora para manejar su soledad a su capricho, llevarla a un cine, encerrarse con ella en cualquier parte.

Las ideas de Aron eran coherentes e indiscutibles: no es idóneo defender, de un lado, el liberalismo y la democracia, y, de otro, una política imperialista y colonial contra un pueblo que reclama su derecho a ser independiente.