Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Work alone is noble.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

I don’t want followers.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I was raised to be independent.