“ Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle… Donna Lynn Hope
“ Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.Having a partner is not a precondition for completeness. Khang Kijarro Nguyen
“ I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities. John Ashbery
“ Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abaseme… Ayn Rand
“ Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. Louisa May Alcott
“ Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Bronte
“ Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married wo… Christina Queen of Sweden
“ It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally… Betty Friedan
“ I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My temper is a mortal enemy to this horrible yoke, which I would not accept, even if I thus would become the… Christina Queen of Sweden
“ Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. Theodore Roosevelt
“ Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests… Thomas Jefferson
“ Dear my strong girls, you will all go through that phase of life making a mistake of helping a toxic girl whose friendship with you turns into her self-interest. This kind of girls is a real burden to… Shannon L. Alder
“ Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? Connie Willis
