Quotes About Independence

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.

Never underestimate the power of a woman!

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.

Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons.

Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

All adventurous women do.

She was a rule breaker, never settling her fierce spirit for things built of structure.

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!

You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men and people in general.

i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me

weak men are afraid of a woman's strength.

To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort.