Quotes About Independence

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

It's only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.

Secular self-assertion, perhaps inevitably, developed more slowly; it was one thing to act in 'unfeminine' ways if divinely inspired, not quite so easy to act unconventionally out of personal ambition.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

Men-what arrogance! That was the worst of them. Forget the sexual hold they had on you. They would never liberate women at all.

When Sarah Marston learned that her Aunt Hilda had left her a cottage and two thousand pounds, she realised that at last she could leave her husband.

I freed myself in order to be alone. For me freedom means solitude, a solitude full of walks in the country, solitary strolls through unfamiliar cities, books scattered around my bed at night, lying open at random pages.

From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything else in my life waxed and waned, but writing, I discovered during my restructuring, was my real core. Not any relationship. Not any love. Not any person. I had become more selfish and less accessible. I ceased to be the universal mommy of the tribe. I wanted to see people when I was done with my writing for the day, and not in the middle of my work time.

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

The love of a cat is unconditional but always subject to negotiation. You are never entirely in charge.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!

I will choose what enters me, what becomes of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. This is my body. If I give it to you I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.