In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of your reality is not their reality.

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

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'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.