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“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...”
“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capa...”
“In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shir...”
“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”
“I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturingme, or even planning too closely in any w...”
“Independence has made us Soft”
“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.”
“They resented the patronage they depended upon.”
“If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity,what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.”
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
“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.”
“Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. Nothing holds me here.”
“With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude a...”
“Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.”
“Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and demo...”
“Everything thing I have ever achieved in life I have accomplished on my own I've earned it - even the bad stuff.”
“Life with Ilona was invariably lived on two levels, or rather in two simultaneous and parallel directions. On the one hand, your feet were always on the ground, you were always intelligently but no...”
“The only path of escape he could conceive as yet for Lady Harman lay through the chivalry of some other man. That a woman could possibly rebel against one man without the sympathy and moral mainten...”
“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.”
“He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded, obsessed. He had been seeing her and himself and the whole world far too much as a display of ...”
