#dependence

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#important #impressive #independence #living #means

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#boost #dakota #dependence #economy #encouraging

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. ↗

— Seth Low

#dutch #first #flag #foreign #forget

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#franchise #independence #man #political #political independence

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#demonstrate #economy #fact #globalization #got

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#allowed #am #because #colonial #could