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Independence Quotes
"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"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."
"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
"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."
"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"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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