Live for what you love, and die for what you’re unwilling to live without…

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, “so that he would see whether I knew myself or not.” The next day, she...

Je réclame l’indépendance dans l’interdépendance.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest...

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

I don’t want to have to save your life,’ Chord says softly. ‘Not when you can do it.

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturingme, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions....

I’m myself, not a label.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

I’m single because I was born that way.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the...

We are so accustomed to the comforts of “I cannot”, “I do not want to” and “it is too difficult” that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others...

The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has...

For millions it was a banner of independence,

You can’t criticize Independence Air’s management for trying something, but it was apparent it wasn’t working after a month. They should have changed it then, but they were all too busy drinking the Kool-Aid.

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the...

Milton’s Eve! Milton’s Eve! … Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not … I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and...

I am living breathing freedom

And I wonder how the leaves clinched to the branches, yet to fall, the survivors feel when they see one of their own perish and realise that they too are to share a similar fate,...

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one...

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

The critic said, but don’t you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

the necessary independence from partisan factions.

Remember, Montag, we’re the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two...

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I am often described to my irritation as a ‘contrarian’ and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up...

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

I’d trapped myself in a script…. But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I...

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

There is no sin in hope!

I worry that independence will never feel safe again.

Men whose only concern is other people’s opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of...

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

Some say freedom is a gift placed in our hands by our forefathers.Some say freedom is a human right that none should be denied.Some say freedom is a privilege that can and will be seized...

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth…

But we-‘ she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, ‘we see each other only now and then-”Like lights in a storm-”In the midst of a hurricane,’ she concluded, as the window shook...

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars,...

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you’re screwed but good. Not right away,...

Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly…Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

Niemand hat das Recht zu gehorchen.