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Quotes About Independence

I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
~ Mae West
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.
~ Malin Akerman
Women can have their own kids and not have a husband or not have a partner.
~ Margaret Hoover
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.
~ Margaret Mead
Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
~ Margaret Sanger
Women must have economic and social equality with men.
~ Margaret Sanger
She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.
~ Margaret Sanger
It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
~ Marlo Thomas
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.
~ Maya Angelou
I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.
~ Melissa Rosenberg
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.
~ Merle Shain
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.
~ Mickey Rourke
I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.
~ Mike Colter
I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.
~ Mindy Kaling
Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.
~ Myrtle Reed
I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions.
~ Naomi Watts
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
~ Naomi Wolf