Quotes About Independence

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

Why do men feel threatened by women?

Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

Women should have absolute access to capital.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!