Quotes about Independence

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.

She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't.

I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

We must be our own, before we can be another's.