Quotes About Independence

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.

There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison

These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything.

Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don't want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!

No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man's love to provide you with value.

There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before.

Women are extraordinary creatures!

If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man.