Quotes About Independence

Well-meant protectiveness undermines autonomy... When a will to act is thwarted, it atrophies into a wish to be taken care of.

We told them I was home-schooled, raised by feral librarians.

Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.

But sometimes the right dog just happens to come along. A smart dog. A loving dog. A helpful dog. A brave and independent dog...a good dog.

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Then how about one kiss?' he said with a sexy grin. 'Something to remember me by?' 'I'll give you something to remember me by,' I said. The back of my head.' I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.

Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power."--Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

screw the rules i have money

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone in the place where I make no mistakes in the place where I have what it takes

I'll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.

But some climbs you have to make alone.

Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Gabriel actually laughed. "Luckily for Philippa, she's beautiful enought that another man will come along who has the balls to accept what she's offering.

I will find a man who adores me, or I'll buy a house next to a bookstore and live happily by myself," she concluded, shaking out her skirts.

Better a happy spinster than an unhappy duchess.

I certainly don't want a husband!" Griselda said. "Of course you do," Sylvie stated. "Every woman wants a husband; they are so necessary to one's comfort, like a flannel night rail in the winter. Necessary, but tedious to acquire.

Write out your own ending, Nevvy!" Chuffy exclaimed.

Freedom is a bird of many feathers; It may let one flutter down sometimes in the kitchengardens of the world, But the bird rests not upon any branch that grows near the ground.

WOMEN, SEXUAL ROLES AND CHILDREN There is much evidence that women held their own in Viking society, even though men had the upper hand. Many exercised independent authority and were respected as members of their own social class, and their status may have improved during the Viking Age, since men were often away on long military expeditions or trading voyages, leaving the women in charge of everything at home.