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Quotes About Independence

Bad women celebrate themselves.
~ Janice Mirikitani
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.
~ Amy Dickinson
woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.
~ Laura Schlessinger
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
~ Helen Fisher
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
~ Meg Ryan
In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.
~ Dave Sim
Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
~ Patti LaBelle
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
~ Will Rogers
I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
~ Adam Hills
A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
~ Helen Rowland
Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.
~ Amber Valletta
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
~ Germaine Greer
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
~ Jane Campion
My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.
~ Regina King
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
~ Robert Casey
A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.
~ Roger Ebert
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?
~ Amy Poehler
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
~ Joyce Maynard