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Quotes About Independence

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
~ Diane Keaton
I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.
~ Dick Cheney
I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.
~ Dionne Warwick
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
~ Doris Lessing
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
~ Earl Felton
I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
~ Eddi Reader
I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!
~ Eddie Murphy
No man is competent to manage another.
~ Edmund A. Opitz
But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
~ Edward Abbey
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
~ Edward Abbey
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
~ Ellen Douglas
Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
I don't need a man in my life.
~ Enya
I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'
~ Eric Close
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
~ Ethel Mumford
I can stand out the war with any man.
~ Florence Nightingale
Men always fear things which move by themselves.
~ Frank Herbert
In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.
~ Freddy Adu
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche