Quotes About Independence

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

Women are powerful and dangerous.

I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.

Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.