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Independence Quotes
"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
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"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
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"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."
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"You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase."
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"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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"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."
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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."
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"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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"There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations."
2
"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."
2
"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."
2
"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 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!"
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"I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine."
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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."
2
"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
2
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
2
"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."
2
"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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"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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"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
1
"Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too."
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"Never let a day be your control factor."
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"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
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"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the 'M' is silent."
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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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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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"Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone."
"I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine."
"I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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