Quotes About Independence

A woman deprived of her free will can never have the credit of making a sacrifice.

Therefore you see, my friend, that I am not a woman. You do wrong to love me. What! am I to leave the ethereal regions of my pretended strength, make myself humbly small, cringe like the hapless female of all species, that you may lift me up? and then, when I, helpless and broken, ask you for help, when I need your arm, you will repulse me! No, we can never come to terms.

Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.

The married woman is a slave whom one must know how to set upon a throne.

If a woman so much as stands alone and by herself somewhere, all sorts of men gather around her showing their teeth.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom

If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing here is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved that I'd probably kneel down at that person's feet. And if it isn't love, if it's eventually going to end, I want to go on sleeping like this; I want to stop hearing the phone when he calls. Let me be alone again.

Quanti anni avevo quand'ho capito che su quel sentiero buio e solitario l'unica luce possibile era quella che io stessa avrei emanato?

El hambre nocturna es un espíritu maligno que actúa independientemente de la personalidad de cada uno.

I'd assumed that once I'd passed the age of twenty, I'd gained the power to do everything alone. But I'd been wrong about that, and this just brought it home to me, again, that I still had a long way to go.

You don't necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices. The important thing, I think, is to choose for yourself. Standing

N?u thá»±c sá»± mu?n má»™t mình tá»± l?p thì r?t nên nuôi d??ng má»™t th? gì Ä'ó. NhÆ° là má»™t ??a con hay là lÅ© cây c?nh này này. Lúc Ä'ó, mình s? nh?n ra giá»›i h?n c?a mình. B?i Ä'ó chính là sá»± kh?i ??u cháu ?

Non potevo andare avanti così, dovevo reagire per orgoglio, non potevo seguire alla lettera tutto quello che mi dicevano gli altri o farmi trasportare dal fiume senza nemmeno provare a nuotare controcorrente.

I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying.

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own?

I realized that from now on, my mom's life and mine would have to be completely, unmistakably different. Nothing about us was the same: the times we lived in, the ways we regarded the world, the things we valued.

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

Interagire poco con le altre persone, lasciarmi coinvolgere il meno possibile, dedicarmi a ciò che mi piaceva e, magari, anche rendermi utile un minimo.

En este camino escarpado, realmente oscuro y solitario, me daba cuenta de que la única salida era hacer algo brillante. Me habían criado con amor, pero siempre me había sentido sola

Que maravilla! Me basta con que él esté a mi lado; no necesito que sea mío. Todo el mundo disfruta recostándose bajo los grandes árboles que crecen en el parque, y pese a todo, esos árboles no pertenecen a nadie.

Potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

Because I have a lot of faith in you, I suddenly feel I out to tell you something. I learned it raising Yuichi. There were many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.