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Quotes About Independence

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.
~ Miley Cyrus
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
~ Angelina Jolie
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.
~ Crystal Eastman
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
~ Maya Angelou
When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.
~ Maya Angelou
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
~ Faye Wattleton
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
~ Margaret Mitchell
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
~ Betty Friedan
It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.
~ Kathy Valentine
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
~ Molly Ivins
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
~ Mary Astell
The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.
~ Elijah Wood
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women are natural anarchists...
~ Kim Gordon
The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.
~ Albert Einstein
Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.
~ Sherry Argov
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
~ Julian Barnes
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
~ Nora Ephron
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
~ Francesca Annis
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
~ Jenny Shipley
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~ Hedy Lamarr