Quotes About Independence

Young women are getting a distorted message that their right to match men drink for drink is a feminist issue. The real feminist message should be that when you lose the ability to be responsible for yourself, you drastically increase the chances that you will attract the kinds of people who, shall we say, don't have your best interest at heart. That's not blaming the victim; that's trying to prevent more victims.

Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?

You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

You know who you belong to, Jack?" "Yeah." "Yourself." He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

Are you mine?" Yes. "Are you mine?" Yes. "Are you mine?" No. "No?" No. I loved being yours. But now I'm mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir "The Demon's Daughter

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay. But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Quieres alimentar a alguien un día? Dale un pescado. ¿Quieres alimentarle toda la vida? Enséñale a pescar»,

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.