independence Quotes

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.