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“Encouraged by her headmistress Beatrice Harris, whose embrace of feminine independence and suffragist views would have an enduring influence on Clementine, she was secretly nursing dreams of academia.”

Book:Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill

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“It was Gandhi who gave the Congress Party a mass base, a rural base. Four out of five Indians live in villages; and the Congress remains the only party in India (except for certain regional parties) which has a rural organization; it cannot lose. The opposition parties, even a revivalist Hindu party like the Jan Sangh, the National Party, are city parties. In the villages, the Congress is still Gandhi's party; and the village tyrannies that have been established through nearly thirty years of unbroken Congress rule cannot now be easily removed. In the countryside, the men to watch for are the men in white Gandhian homespun. They are the men of power, the politicians; their authority, rooted in antique reverences of caste and clan, has been emboldened by Independence and democracy.”

Democracy Tradition India Independence Corruption Politicians Caste Rural Life

Book:India: A Wounded Civilization

Source: India: A Wounded Civilization

“I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.”

Freedom Liberty Independence Wit Political Freedom

Author:Robert Frost

“Pretending like you can take on the world on your own isn't brave, it's stupid.”

Community Independence Interdependence

Book:Velvet

Source: Velvet

“My father preached independence for women long before it was fashionable to do so. There was no way any of the Stoner girls was going to marry a man because she was looking to be taken care of; my father would have found that revolting. We had to be in control of our own lives.”

Life Women Independence Take Care Control

Book:Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

“The need to declare our independence and our dominance resonated with the entire team.”

Team Independence Dominance

Book:Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL

Source: Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL

“And without even trying, she fell in love. Not with some guy who sent her an e-mail or posted a profile. No, she'd found someone else. Someone who'd always been around but to whom she'd never really given a second thought. Herself.”

Relationships Self Esteem Independence

Book:The Friday Night Knitting Club

Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club

“Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them,−−persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection”

Perfection Independence Barbarians Populism Philistines

Book:Culture and Anarchy

Source: Culture and Anarchy

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