Quotes About Independence

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission."

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

There's no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.