Quotes About Independence

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Strong women only marry weak men.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

I hope more women see, at least eventually, that a healthy relationship isn't anything that breaks you down.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.