177 quotes found
“Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.”
“How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.”
“We need three basic things to live - food, clothing, and shelter. Very few of us actually grow our own food, make our own clothes, and build our own homes. If we do not fulfill our basic needs by o...”
“We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.”
“You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.”
“I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.”
“Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.”
“Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?”
“I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.”
“A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be ...”
“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.”
“I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where I want to be. She is not some i...”
“I worry that independence will never feel safe again.”
“You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.”
“Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in f...”
“The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or lat...”
“At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied,"Are they going to call the trade show police?”
“Jo couldnt even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for su...”
“I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else....”
“Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.”
