Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.
Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.