These independent woman quotes will inspire you. Being an independent woman means you are comfortable doing things on your own.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging independent woman quotes, independent woman sayings, and independent woman proverbs.
Best Independent Woman Quotes
- “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
- “I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.” ~ Dido Armstrong
- “We ought to have more women in various management positions because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.” ~ Ingvar Kamprad
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“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
- “It took a while to grow the confidence to say, ‘This is who I am, take it or leave it.'” ~ Coco Rocha
- “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” ~ Madeleine Albright
- “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- “I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
- “I would rather be a rebel than a slave.” ~ Emmeline Pankhurst
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “We’re connected, as women. It’s like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there’s trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we’re just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don’t help each other, who will?” ~ Sarah Addison Allen
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“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
- “Be sure of yourself, don’t let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.” ~ Nicole Polizzi
- “If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.” ~ Peter Lindbergh , Strong independent woman quotes
- “I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell an independent woman what to do.” ~ Betty Ford
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Until they come up with an independent woman who’s on an adventure of her own, I don’t think I’m interested.” ~ Michelle Rodriguez
- “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.” ~ Rajneesh
- “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
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“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone.” ~ Boris Kodjoe
- “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
- “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” ~ Erica Jong
- “It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.” ~ Camille Paglia
- “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
- “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
- “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” ~ Ruth Gordon
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“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.” ~ Katharine Hepburn
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “I am not afraid; I was born to do this.” ~ Joan of Arc
- “Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.” ~ Vida Goldstein
- “We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their ‘proper sphere.’ The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.” ~ Harriet Taylor Mill
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“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” ~ John Lennon
- “Sometimes, I feel that if you’re a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.” ~ Gemma Arterton
- “Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” ~ Charlotte Whitton
- “My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives, and drive the course of history.” ~ Rachel Roy
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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.” ~ Joseph Conrad
- “In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “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.” ~ Audra McDonald
- “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.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Independent women must expect more of themselves since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.” ~ A. S. Byatt
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“Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.” ~ Kyra Sedgwick
- “I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.” ~ Kamala Harris
- “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
- “There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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.'” ~ Clare Boothe Luce
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“Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “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.” ~ Barry Commoner
- “A man is not a financial plan.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‘Independent Women,’ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.” ~ Beyonce Knowles
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“Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “I’d like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor, I want to play all different kinds of women – independent women but also very vulnerable women.” ~ Rachel Weisz
- “My theory is, independent movies only work if you’re willing to push the material and do something different.” ~ Balthazar Getty
- “In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn’t willing to have an independent Palestinian state.” ~ Silvan Shalom
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“No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.” ~ George P. Baker
- “I’ve always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.” ~ Taye Diggs
- “I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.” ~ Bob Woodward
- “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.” ~ Norman Cousins
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“The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “I respond to powerful women. I’m not intimidated by that, I like that, it’s not something I shy away from, so I don’t want women who are looking for me to take care of them. To me, that’s a turn-off. I respond to strong, powerful, independent women.” ~ Mike Colter
- “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” ~ Lucinda Williams
- “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.” ~ Bruce Feiler
