Quotes About Independence

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

Women need men like fish need bicycles.

I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.

Lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.

In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

I am a big believer in women's lib, but I love when a man holds a door for me.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.