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"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
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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."

"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."

"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."

"There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want."

"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."

"My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them."

"Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence."

"If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn't need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people's approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery."
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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."
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