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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."

"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

"Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness."

"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."

"Because if it is to spite her,' Biddy pursued, 'I should think -but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think -but you know best- she was not worth gaining over."

"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."

"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."
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"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."

"In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose."

"Men are like beer. Some are bold and some are smooth. But every damn one of 'em has a big-ass head full of air."
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