Being Independent Woman Quotes - Page 2

• Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

  Harriet Morgan

  Strength, Strong Women, Hurt

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

  Coco Chanel

  Strong Women, Empowering, Empowerment

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Girl, Strong Women

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• I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Running, Badass, Independent

  "Diane Von Furstenberg, Famed Designer, Reflects On Career In 'MAKERS' Doc", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Independent Women, Intelligent, Wish

  "Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri Frederic Amiel, Macmillan, transl. by Humphry Ward, 1893.

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• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

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• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Country, Strong Women

  1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Motivational, Strong Women, Philosophy

  The Second Sex vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949) (translation by H. M. Parshley)

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• 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.

  Shirley Bassey

  Strong, Independent, Successful

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• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  Katerina Graham

  Broken Heart, Song, Moving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Home, Independent, Management

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, Politics

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Daughter, Strong Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.2594, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Emma Roberts

  Mom, Independent, Grew Up

  "Emma Roberts is Not a Hollywood Cliché". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. January 25, 2011.

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• In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girly, Morning, Motivation

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• You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

  Byron Katie

  Strength, Being Strong, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2011

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Courage, Struggle

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, Careers, America

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.87, Vintage

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• It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.

  Apolo Ohno

  Independent, Goal, Important

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• I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Independent, Eye, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Katerina Graham

  Sexy, Women, Independent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don't show too much.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Strong, Independent, Personality

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