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Quotes About Independence

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
~ Melinda Gates
I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.
~ Gal Gadot
I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
~ Katy Perry
Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
~ Lucretia Mott
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
~ Mae West
A society can never be free without women's liberation
~ Abdullah Ocalan
Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.
~ Ava Gardner
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
~ Bella Abzug
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
~ Melinda Gates
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices
~ Kiran Bedi
I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.
~ Faith Ringgold
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
~ Phyllis Diller
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
~ Amy Poehler
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
~ Virginia Woolf
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw
~ Candace Bushnell
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
~ Victoria Woodhull
The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.
~ Pat Buchanan
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.
~ Pia Zadora
I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
~ Cate Blanchett
A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
~ Louise Erdrich