Quotes about Independence

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

I think everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms.