Quotes about Independence

I noticed that my mother paid for her intellectual freedom with chronic financial struggles and occasional personal chaos

Work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go. 'We're like coyotes,' he said. 'Get to a good place, turn around three times in the grass, and you're home. Once you know how, you can always do that, no matter what. You won't forget.

Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

Sept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretins…At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates, Senora Bartolome had put a note: Take only one, our Lord Jesus is watching!. A second note appeared at the foot of the table beside the sugared almonds: Take all you want, Jesus is looking at the pomegranates.

It hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you're on your own.

It is in his absence I prosper.

I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.