"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."

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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."

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

Henry James, American Writer

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"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."

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"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."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Independence, Respect, Ownership, Truth

"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."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Independence, Care, Word, 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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Independence, Desire, Freedom, Leadership, Life

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Independence, Followers

"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."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Independence, Freedom, Solitude, Thought

"If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Independence, People, Opinion, Self, Strength

"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."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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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!"

"If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope."

"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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"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."

"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."

"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."

"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."

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"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."

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"Please your eye and plague your heart."

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