Quotes About Independence

The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger.

Une liberté qui ne s'emploie qu'à nier la liberté doit être niée.

Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially protect liege-woman and will be in charge of justifying her existence: along with the economic risk, she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help.

Pero nuestros actos no esperan ser llamados; saltan hacia un porvenir que no está prefigurado en ninguna parte.

I think he looks upon me as a mathematical constant whose disappearance would take him very much aback without in any way altering his destiny, since the heart of the matter lies elsewhere.

No dia que for possível à mulher amar em sua força e não em sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma, mas para se encontrar, não para se renunciar, mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal.

Rodi?ia eÅ¡te vychovávajú svoje dcéry radÅ¡ej pre manželstvo, než by podporovali ich osobný rozvoj. A žena v ?om vidí to?ko výhod, že po ?om sama túži.

When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again— to live for oneself.

Ser libre es lanzarse en el mundo sin cálculo, sin apuestas, es definir uno mismo toda apuesta, toda medida.

If men were content to love a peer instead of a slave — as indeed some men do who are without either arrogance or an inferiority complex — then women would be far less obsessed with their femininity; they would become more natural and simple and would easily rediscover themselves as women, which, after all, they are.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

The reality of the world is the result of our attachment. It is the reality of the self which we transfer into things. It has nothing to do with independent reality. That is only perceptible through total detachment. Should only one thread remain, there is still attachment.

Society is the cave. The way out is solitude.

Sólo pueden amarse quienes aceptan su posible distanciamiento, el espacio entre dos seres independientes que asumen sus propias soledades y que se acompañan mutuamente. Es la grieta entre dos soledades la que permite el acercamiento.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write

all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact.

My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally... I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my tempermentality while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face and shout seen my brown pants?

Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions

I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If

She would earn her living.

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

Once upon a time in America there was a scholar who conducted a one-man revolution and won it. There

He believed that dissent—even a cranky, erratic, eccentric, old-fashioned version of it—was not disloyalty but at the heart of an American democratic identity.

I decided to leave here. Stern resolution. Grasp the world. Then I found that the Village Virus had me, absolute.