Independence Quotes - Page 3

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.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.

Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality - Long Live Pakistan and Happy Independence Day

In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom.

The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their children to live without them but in my family, I wasn’t given permission to be my own person. I thought I needed them to live and then they abandoned me. It’s no wonder I felt so unempowered well into my adult years.

Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.