Independence Quotes

“CALVIN, yelling:

I don't wanna take a bath. I HATE taking baths.

CALVIN, screaming:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

CALVIN, being aggressively carried upstairs by Mom:

NO NO NO NO
NO no NO no NO NO
no no no
NO NO NO NO
no NO
no

CALVIN, now in the bathtub, grinning:

They can make me do it,
but they can't make me
do it with dignity.”
― Bill Watterson

“She just wanted to take one step that belonged to her, make one move that she had independently decided to make, but at every turn it felt as if her strings were being pulled by unseen hands.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Healthy and muscular, he yet gave her the feeling of greyness, of tragedy that might only find solution in the night. The feeling soon passed; it was unlike her to have entertained anything so subtle. Born of silence and of unknown emotion, it passed when Mr Emerson returned, and she could re-enter the world of rapid talk, which was alone familiar to her.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“The old trouble: things won’t fit.’
‘What things?’
‘The things of the universe. It is quite true. They don’t.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“A young man melancholy because the universe wouldn’t fit, because life was a tangle or a wind, or a Yes, or something!”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“As for Charlotte — as for Charlotte, she was exactly the same. It might be possible to be nice to her; it was impossible to love her.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“let me tell you something, little girl.
the line is gray.
you can like lipstick
and worms.”
― Jenny Noble Anderson

“We have to live on our own terms, not disappearing into someone else’s expectations for us.”
― Lauren Edmondson, Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility

“The most beautiful feeling is to breathe in the open air.
The Most Important thing in life is that we live in a peaceful atmosphere.
The great satisfaction is that our generation grows up without fear.
The Biggest relaxation is that we are totally free to enjoy freedom.
and today we have all these, So be happy and Enjoy independence day”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“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.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“My lord, it should little beseem me that am of the seed of men of war since long generations to trap my mind with the false shows of a greatness that is gone. Yet I pray you forget not this: the dominion of the Demons hath used to soar a pitch above common royalty, and like the eye of day regarded kings from above. And for this style of Queen thou offerest me, I say unto thee it is an addition I desire not, who am sister unto him that writ that writing above the gate that all ye had tasted the truth thereof had he been here to meet with you.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“The young man named George glanced at the clever lady, and then returned moodily to his plate. Obviously he and his father did not do. Lucy, in the midst of her success, found time to wish they did. It gave her no extra pleasure that anyone should be left in the cold; and when she rose to go, she turned back and gave the two outsiders a nervous little bow.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Lucy was pleased, and said: ‘I was hoping that he was nice; I do so always hope that people will be nice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Why? Why were most big things unladylike? Charlotte had once explained to her why. It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself, she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Poems had been written to illustrate this point.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“The world,’ she thought, ‘is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Don’t you long to be in Rome?’
‘I die for it!”
― E.M. Forster

“At times, our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I’m a little to blame. I had silly thoughts The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground blue, and for a moment he looked like someone in a book.’
‘In a book?’
‘Heroes — gods — the nonsense of schoolgirls.’
‘And then?’
‘But, Charlotte, you know what happened then.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I’m a little to blame. I had silly thoughts. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground blue, and for a moment he looked like someone in a book.’
‘In a book?’
‘Heroes — gods — the nonsense of schoolgirls.’
‘And then?’
‘But, Charlotte, you know what happened then.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I want to be truthful,’ she whispered. ‘It is so hard to be absolutely truthful.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“But we fear him for you, dear. You are so young and inexperienced, you have lived among such nice people, that you cannot realise what men can be — how they can take a brutal pleasure in insulting a woman whom her sex does not protect and rally round.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“She only felt the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“She was not a stupid woman, and she knew perfectly well that Lucy did not love her, but needed her to love.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“She still clung to the hope that she and Charlotte loved each other, heart and soul.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and — which he held more precious — it gave her shadow. Soon, he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Life is a matter of shared liberty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“I've never been lonely, just alone. I think people who can't stand being alone are silly. How do they know who they are or what they're like if they're never alone?”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

“Is she selfish, she wonders. She certainly has her life the way she wants it--a job she loves, a daughter she adores, a companion animal to share her home--and she knows that she would find it hard to compromise this existence for any man. Even in her fantasies of Nelson leaving Michelle (which do occur, despite herself), they never progress beyond the first ecstatic love-making. She never thinks about Nelson actually living in the tiny cottage, hogging the bathroom, leaving his giant policeman's boots on the stairs, wanting to watch the football instead of Prehistoric Autopsy. They would kill each other in a week.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Outcast Dead

“Kentake Amanerinas (60s-50s BC -
ca. 10 BC) Ethiopian queen and defender of the Kingdom of Kush against Roman aggression.

For 500 years there were female rulers in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (present-day northern Sudan).”
― Nina Ansary, Anonymous Is a Woman: A Global Chronicle of Gender Inequality