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"Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."
"Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe."
"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."
"I like being on my own. I mean, I'm sure a Pack's best for some dogs, but I've walked alone since I left my Pup Pack. I can look after myself."
"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
"If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one."
"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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"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
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