Independent Women Quotes

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

I consider myself to be a feminist. My hope and goal is that I'm going to raise two very strong independent women that won't need anybody, unless they chose that. I want them to be mistresses of their own destiny. But I don't judge people on the other end of that spectrum either.

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

We're comfortable with movie stars having money. We're comfortable with a woman marrying a rich guy and having money. We're not so comfortable with a woman independently working in business and making a lot of money.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.