To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. ‘Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.’ How monotonous, how useless this becomes....

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

It all depends on how independent you are.

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived…

Buffy Summers: (to Spike) “I could NEVER be your girl!

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story...

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move – and no wonder! The woman behind shakes...

I didn’t want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn’t want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and...

If you’re waiting for me to declare my undying love for you, I can’t do that yet, blood-bond or no blood-bond. If you think I’m the swoony type of heroine you find in romance novels,...

America… goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master!

The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman’s fierce need for independence doesn’t mean we want...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not...

Here’s what we’re not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught...

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life...

When someone says you can’t, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can’t.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of ‘if you are not hurting anyone, and you’re not fucking with someone else’s shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be...

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented...

We can take pride … in being nuclear free and in having the strength and independence not to send our young people off to fight in unjust wars,

…they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is not gold that glitters……Eş gibi tatlı bir kelime karşılığında özgürlüklerinden vazgeçenler, parlayan her şeyin altın olmadığını görmeye...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference...

Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free… 🙂 and humans will see…

Since Ireland’s independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.

It really is something … that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn’t it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping...

The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near… She was offering her open palm to the crook-eared cat, but he stayed where he was,...

When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experience that...

Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other...

…the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange pool of city glow coming through the window, smelling heady curry...

Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.

Self-government is our right,” [Roger Casement] declared. “A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to...

We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people.

The Bank of Japan has independence in deciding policy steps. We want the bank to take responsibility for the results of the policies it implements.

at least that’s still there.””Do you know anything about engines?” Stephanie asked.”That’s why I have a husband, so I don’t have to. Engines and shelves, that’s why men were invented.”Stephanie made a mental note to...

We’ll know we’ve got it right when they choose for themselves,” he used to say. That doesn’t make sense. ‘That’s what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I...

We need three basic things to live – food, clothing, and shelter. Very few of us actually grow our own food, make our own clothes, and build our own homes. If we do not fulfill...

Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It’s in what he calls our ‘accursed nature’. That’s why we always end up on our own. I don’t...

Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.

Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.

I don’t believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time...

A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it...

I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find...

You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven’t been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebody else’s life-war.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a...

Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. […] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.

The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them to follow ministers and ministers’ rivals, by persuading them to support...