I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where...

Those who choose differently must suffer the consequences. They must take the pain their decisions bring.

To resist the social pressure now put even on one’s leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one’s own way, than ever before.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation...

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who...

But a girl’s love is not a woman’s love; above all, it is not a modern woman’s love. I, at thirty, cannot accept your views, adopt your methods, and believe your heresies, as you might...

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

I mean to tell you, the Law’s notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean ‘outlaw,’ not criminal. ‘Criminal’ doesn’t distinguish between guys like men and the guys...

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift...

I walked up to Griz and poked him in the chest. “Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though some might seek to make it appear otherwise, I am not a bride to be...

Don’t anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

With the way a lot of men function, I’d say “single” womyn are a threat to society. In fact, I’d go as single womyn are a threat to the system. As a womyn, if you...

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves…

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile...

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined...

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other guide but their own will. This complete independence, which...

My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced....

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has...

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

Journalists prize independence – not teamwork,

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I don’t think there’s any short-term political gain that warrants undermining the independence of our judiciary.

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may...

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

I’m through accepting limits”cause someone says they’re soSome things I cannot changeBut till I try, I’ll never know!Too long I’ve been afraid ofLosing love I guess I’ve lostWell, if that’s loveIt comes at much too...

i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality – Long Live Pakistan and Happy...

The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority...

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could...

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every aspect of your personality that doesn’t quite fit into the story...

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am…the scarce minority.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

I’ve always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you’re over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make...

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

National Review’s premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.