Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

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

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

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

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

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

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I don't belong to anyone.

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

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

Well, I'm an independent person.

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

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

I have a very independent spirit.