Quotes About Independence

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels!

Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I dont think a man can define you. You have to own that.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called 'self basting.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

I am woman, hear me roar.

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run.