Dana Spiotta Quotes

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I appreciate individualism.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

I am a rank individualist.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance?

I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

Like most people, I wanted and still want to live by my own rules.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

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

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

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 don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.