“ Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves. Germaine Greer
“ I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! So… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every aspect of your personality that doesn’t quite fit into the story boys h… Laurie Penny
“ It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fello… Jo Baker
“ After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it. Florence Converse
“ And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny! Florence Converse
“ But a girl’s love is not a woman’s love; above all, it is not a modern woman’s love. I, at thirty, cannot accept your views, adopt your methods, and believe your heresies, as you might be able to teac… Florence Converse
“ Living your life on your own terms is utterly glorious. It makes perfect sense to you, but you have to be willing to let go of everything else. It has to be okay if nobody else likes that, but then wh… Melinda Gebbie
“ We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people. Elizabeth Hormann
“ If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things. Marci G. Fox
“ We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves... Seja Majeed
“ To share our independence, to me, is synonym with “maturity”. Maturity means the combination of courage—to do something—and consideration—to stop doing that when it’s required. Kind of like the gas an… Nityananda Das
“ Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Jalaluddin Rumi
“ In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand... Seja Majeed
“ The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence. Albert Camus
