Quotes About Independence

The loved one should be a delightful accompaniment to our already intact lives, not the main event.

When we live alone time and freedom are at the service of our muse in a way that artists in a relationship might envy.

Wings unclipped, there was only me playing with empty space that kneeled to my will.

No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.

independence sprang from those years when I

I don't want you anymore. I don't want to be second choice, second best, second whatever. I don't want to be the one who trails after you like some stupid lost puppy dog. I don't want to be the one you got stuck with after the one you loved got away.

But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

Among the more outspoken and intrepid travelers emerged the paradox of the antifeminist feminist: women who saw no need to change the legal status, as they had never met an obstacle they could not overcome.

Going outside the system seems sometimes the only way to get anything done—even by those within the system.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

You always have to think for yourself.

I didn't do drugs when I was pregnant; you're the way you are on your own.

There are a lot of reasons horses don't do what we'd like them to do. They have their own opinions and agenda. Like CB with his swish. They're our partners not our subjects.

I wanted to take his leash off and let him run free, but I was scared to. What if he decided he'd had enough of me and ran off to be a stray again?

and you and I are on our own. No magic wand is gonna fix things." I didn't want to believe that, so I pushed those words away so I wouldn't have to think about them. Then I said, "Did

washed my hair in the bathroom of the Texaco gas station that very morning. And I pretended like my daddy hadn't just waltzed off and left us with nothing but three rolls of quarters and a mayonnaise jar full of wadded-up dollar

In case you haven't noticed, the primary occupation of little girls is sitting still. Stop fidgeting, behave yourself, act like a lady, don't, don't don't --that's what little girls hear the most. But my mother never said those words to me. She said Go! Do! Sing!

Perhaps long spaghetti is the kind of thing that ought to be eaten quite alone with nobody to watch one's struggles.

Four people on the verge of retirement, each one of us living alone, and without any close relative near – that's us.

But men ought to be able to manage their own affairs," I said. "After all most of them don't seem to mind speaking frankly and making people unhappy.

It's not being a woman I mind so much," she said slowly. "'Tis the way men seem to always order my life." She leaned earnestly toward him. "Your hand, Papa, has wielded a sword and cradled a child and held power over hundreds of men." She held up her own hand. "This one has far fewer adventures before it.