E. M. Forster Quotes

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

I want to go out on my terms.

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.

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I'm doing what I want to do.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.