Quotes About Independence

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that it made sense to give that up.

Wild women don't get the blues.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

I like aggressive and sexually liberated women. It's hot to me.

Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.