Quotes about Independence
The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment.
- Euripides
Their point of resemblance to each other & their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world- they preserved their individuality through men & not by opposition to them.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...
- F Scott Fitzgerald
And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry
- F Scott Fitzgerald