Quotes about Independence
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
- Maya Angelou
The United States of America has been great because it has been free.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
- Emily Bronte
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- George Bernard Shaw
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
- George Eliot
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
- Hillary Clinton
You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
- Gloria Steinem
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
- Gloria Steinem
Women are powerful and dangerous.
- Audre Lorde
The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.
- Kerry Washington
The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.
- Diane von Furstenberg