Quotes about Independence

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Convey nurturing messages both verbally and nonverbally. If you fill one's life with positive messages of their value to you and to God, they wll develop self-worth and self-disciplines, and become responsible independent adults. Ideally, communication should be filled with nurturing messages.

In the end you have only you.

Only one who risks is free.

Do I tell you how to braid your hair? Don't tell me how to plow a field.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes. I make where I go. It's that sort of thing.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.