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Independence Quotes
"Be independent, ad do what you will."
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"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."
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"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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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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"You gotta stand up and walk, Gem, he said quietly, turning his back on them. 'You have to walk out of here. Not just for them, but for yourself. Come on. You have to walk out of here on your own two feet. So I did."
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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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"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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"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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"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."
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"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."
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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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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."
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"Be independent, and do what you will."
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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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"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."
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"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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"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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"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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"Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation."
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"Never let a day be your control factor."
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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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"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the 'M' is silent."
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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."
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"No. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material."
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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
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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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"When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves."
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"The dream is yours. why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within."
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"I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine."
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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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"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
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"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."
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"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
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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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"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
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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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"I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way."
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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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"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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"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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"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."
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