Independence proverbs

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◆ It's probably not just by chance that I'm alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he's terribly strong. And if he's stronger than I, I'm the one who can't live with him. … I'm neither smart nor stupid, but I don't think I'm a run-of-the-mill person. I've been in business without being a businesswoman, I've loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I've loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I've done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen99

◆ I'd rather die my way than live yours.

- Lauren Oliver99

◆ There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

- Rumi99

◆ I'm single because I was born that way.

- Mae West99

◆ Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

- Charlotte Bront?99

◆ Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

- Mae West99

◆ To find yourself, think for yourself.

- Socrates99

◆ Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne99

◆ It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

- Betty Friedan99

◆ I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft99