Quotes About Independence

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.

Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.

Women want to be chosen.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

My personal passion is to educate women so that they can be empowered to make better choices. Sometimes we don't make healthy choices because we don't know any better.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.

Women are fully capable of doing everything.

We should let women make their own decisions.

From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.