A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence

— Sunday Adelaja

A free man can live on fish. Independence is better than meat

— Halldór Laxness

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

— Florence Converse

A good relationship does not celebrate dependence; it nurtures the spirit of independence. Fall in love with yourself and commit to your goals, dreams and desires, that’s the most important relationship you can be in.

— Malti Bhojwani

All mothers breed dead children.

— Mie Hansson

All my life, I thought I was this independent woman. I was on all the right committees, made speeches for all the right causes, traveled all over the world. I had my little part-time job, I made all my own decisions, but. . . There was always someone there to fall back on when things went bad. Funny, how after so many years of marriage you don’t think about how much you depend on the other person until. . . Well, until they’re gone. And then of course there’s just the whole system in the city. Your doctor, your pharmacist, your plumber, your vet. . . There’s always someone there. You never have to find out. . . How much you can’t do.

— Donna Ball

Almost two hundred sixty-six years ago on my home world, Earth, my forefathers did the same thing. They declared their independence and free agency from an enemy that oppressed them. No one at that time expected this rebellion force to win the war. They were severely outnumbered, and they were extremely inexperienced compared to their enemy. Despite those odds, they succeeded in winning the war, giving them their independence and freewill to choose. (Adrian Palmer, Worlds Without End: The Mission)

— Shaun Messick

A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

— Leigh Hershkovich

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

— Nathan McCall