It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
Betty FriedanStichwörter: strength identity self-discovery feminism completion independence living-vicariously
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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: love empowerment gender men women freedom identity integrity romance self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image ideal-woman
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
RumiStichwörter: empowerment courage creativity independence self-confidence self-realization inspirational-stories
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: individuality self-reliance independence self-trust
Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.
Naomi WolfStichwörter: liberty equality democracy usa independence declaration subversive
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco ChanelStichwörter: individuality empowerment freedom courage judgment thought self-determination independence speaking-out dignity
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: individuality empowerment self-esteem solitude ataraxy self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness defiance self-trust self-sufficiency self-containment
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn RandStichwörter: independence
...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself
Robert KursonStichwörter: independence
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftStichwörter: empowerment gender women morality freedom virtue feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence double-standards social-norms
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