“I'm not being anyone's captive ever again.”— Eric Heisserer, Shelley Meals, Vanya Asher, Alina Starkov, Jessie Mei Li, imdb.com
“Today I even adore the outdoors, the sun, the wind! I need to sweat. I need to walk, run, chase what I want.”— Asha Noel Iyer, psiloveyou.xyz
“Also, do you think just because I'm married, I can't get a baked potato whenever I want? Because I can. I'm eating baked potatoes all the fucking time.”— Matt Hubbard, Alan Yang, June, Maya Rudolph, imdb.com
“I don’t need no psychiatrist. I don’t need nobody to be in my ear telling me, ‘You can’t do this or that.’ I’ve got to do it on my own, man.”— Tech N9Ne, complex.com
“The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.”— Tech N9Ne, complex.com
“I don’t want to be like my mom. I don’t want to depend on anyone.”— Isabella Aguilar, Giacomo Durzi, Andrea De Sica, Ludovica, Alice Pagani, imdb.com
“Peter: She's on her own, Saul. Saul: She's always been on her own.”— Gideon Raff, Saul Berenson, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com
“I felt so free for a week. But then, all of a sudden, within days I went from ‘Yay, I'm independent’ to ‘Holy fuck, I'm gonna die alone.’”— Jill Soloway, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“My point is, in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone . . . Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and she repeated them endlessly. One was to ‘be a lady,’ and that meant conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way. And the other was to be ind…”— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, amazon.com
“Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com
“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of those ma…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“You can't wait on everybody to help you! Sometimes you just gotta save up & INVEST IN YASELF! E'r li'l coin counts! SPEND YA [MONEY] WISELY on [what's] worth it.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”— Nathan Hale, amazon.com
“She’d rather be a blazing wildfire than a dimming candle; always igniting the fire within her soul that could never be put out.”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“Ah, you have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world, then George Costanza as you know him ceases to exist! You see, right now, I have Relationship George, but there is also Independent George. That's the George you know, the George you grew up with—Movie G…”— David Mandel, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com