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"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"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."
"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
"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."
"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
"Never let a day be your control factor."
"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."
"Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe."
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"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
"I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control."
"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."
"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
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