fear of independence Quotes

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

What is happening now is that the number of people who are not strong enough or do not feel strong enough to decide to live without the security provided by the community or the state, is going up.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.