Quotes about Independence

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

Do not think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone, and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? -Joan

Do not think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone, and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? -Joan

Liza. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence. Higgins. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all. —SIR

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

Oh, mother," said Maggie, in a vehemently cross tone, "I don't want to do my patchwork." "What! not your pretty patchwork, to make a counterpane for your aunt Glegg?" "It's foolish work," said Maggie, with a toss of her mane,—"tearing things to pieces to sew 'em together again.

There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.