Florence L. Barclay Quotes

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

People should just let me be.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

Solitude is independence.

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

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

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

I'm very independent.

To be adult is to be alone.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

I do what I want, when I want.

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

I'm independent; I live by myself.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.