Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I want to go out on my terms.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I have always been independent.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

He is great enough that is his own master.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

There is no such thing as being too independent.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

I am myne owene woman, wel at ese

Self Emancipation

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves.

I do things my way. I don't do things to make people happy or appease them.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

I'm my own player.