Quotes about Independence

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.