Quotes About Independence

I could not want a lover, more than I want freedom.

neuralgia, so she had come along on her own. It was worth it, though. She

Frances tänkte inte be om ursäkt. Bättre att vara som jag, tänkte hon, än att vara gift. Hellre ungmö än trångsynt tjänstemannafru!

But now that I'm not needed to take care of any of you, now that no one seems to notice if I do or I don't, I can't work out what to do with myself.

When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough?

Do you want to share a black cab?' Black cabs were an extravagance that Neve couldn't afford, not this far away from payday, but that wasn't the reason why she declined. 'No, thank you. I'm perfectly all right with catching the tube.' 'OK, tube it is,' Max agreed, because he was quite obviously emotionally tone deaf and couldn't sense the huge 'kindly bugger off' vibes that Neve was sure she was emitting.

thought about having one last kiss, but in the end the only way she could leave was to walk away without looking back.

Another reason why people take me seriously is because I never apologise even when - no, especially when I should,' he told her coolly. 'No pleases, thank yous or sorries - remember that and you might have that interesting year I was talking about.

Bitch is just a word that boys say when they don't have the power to hurt you any more.

Well, she's told me very little about you,' her grandmother replied because she'd survived a war, one stillbirth, a daughter who'd got knocked up at seventeen and ten years of a Labour government, and she didn't take shit from anyone.

Nora Ephron quote: 'Be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.

When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.

She was different to other women, that's why. She hadn't gone all fluttery-eyed on him. Instead, she'd stood up to him, and for some reason that difference meant he'd lost the ability to resist. "Contrary bastard," he muttered to himself.

Restricted happiness is better than the freedom of solitude." -Yuichi to Wataru

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you.

We are not here concerned with people who profess the democratic faith but yearn for the dark security of dependency where they can be spared the burden of decisions. Reluctant to grow up, or incapable of doing so, they want to remain children and be cared for by others. Those who can, should be encouraged to grow; for the others, the fault lies not in the system but in themselves.

Only when I turned thirty did I finally feel for the first time that I was free, that I could live as I liked, as an individual. It's as if at thirty, I'd been born for the first time. Until then, I was never more than someone's tool.

Can something be created in language independently of the people who use the language? Can language become a self-replicating system or …' I'm drunk, I suddenly realise, so I shut up. But

Throw the puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

Your mind is a horse you ride, Merrick. No one can hold the reins for you -- Grandad

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.