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"I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
"Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here. 'I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself."
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."
"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
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"Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason."
"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."
"Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them."
"And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace."
"It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way."
"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
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