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Independence Quotes
"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."
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"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"Very often it seems that people assume that by cutting the wings of others, it becomes easier to love them. They know so little about love that end up creating a perception of love that is devilish and demoniacal. And I end with no other choice but to remain single and let them go."
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"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."
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
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"There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations."
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"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."
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"It's not as if I don't like men, I just have more respect for my washing machine."
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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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"Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation."
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"Self-confident people don't make their self-esteem, self-image, happiness, or self-confidence dependent on another person's approval, validation, or acceptance."
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"I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson."
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"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."
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"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
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"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
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"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
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"I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself."
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
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"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
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"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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"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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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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"Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too."
"Never let a day be your control factor."
"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"Sophie had survived on her own for a long time. She knew she didn't need a man, not even Darius. But she wanted him. That made all the difference in the end."
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