Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. Gerald F. Lieberman declarationdivorceindependence Change image and share on social
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. Ryszard Kapuscinski allowangolacelebration Change image and share on social
Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you. Patrick deWitt backchangeforce Change image and share on social
I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent. Suheir Hammad completelyfashionhave Change image and share on social
'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France. Claire Denis awarebeginchild share on social
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence. Rebecca Traister economicindependenceindependently Change image and share on social
In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda. Ken Salazar achieveagendumcraft share on social
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. Abraham Lincoln aidassailbondage share on social
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II activeeminentlyequally Change image and share on social