#dependence

The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#country #create #drill #fact #freedom

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

#creativity #empowerment #independence #inspirational-stories #self-confidence

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#freedom

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#women #women

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #fame #independent-thought #judgment #opinions

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. ↗

— Mary Austin

#creatures #credit #fully #interdependence #kind