The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the pr...oper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for th...e independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women, because of their colonial relationship to men, have to fight for their own independence. This fight for our own independenc...e will lead to the growth and development of the revolutionary movement in this country. Only the independent woman can be truly effective in the larger revolutionary struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of indep...endence and security is very sweet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a whe...el. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.... As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentm...ent they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother wi...thout and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order t...o extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »