Quotes About Independence

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.

Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.