“ Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of… Philip Pullman
“ First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by tha… Thrity Umrigar
“ Independence is to have full control of your life to be able to make your own choices and design your destiny. Nabil Basma
“ Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinc… Graham Joyce
“ You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You’ve acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do not have children; you never intended to. Sustained romantic intensi… Margo Jefferson
“ Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time. Auliq Ice
“ Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves. Leah Remini
“ A lot of us are like that—I’m like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can’t stand to be around people for very long.… Jon Krakauer
“ When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be fr… Edmund Morgan
“ What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he w… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ 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! Adelaide Crapsey
“ You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the… Kahlil Gibran
“ The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right. J.K. Rowling
“ The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Joseph Heller
“ At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too me… Christopher Hitchens
“ Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves. Benjamin Constant
“ She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go. Mercedes Lackey
“ She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different. Mervyn Peake
