Quotes About Independence

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

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.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Give us that grand word woman once again, And let's have done with lady; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes -- that's why you sometimes need really special shoes!

I am my own woman.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.