I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to…

— Jenny Shipley

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had…

— Virginia Woolf

Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence...…

— Walter J. Phillips

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

— Booker T. Washington

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their…

— Thomas Friedman

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents,…

— Lin Yutang

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of…

— Booker T. Washington

Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss…

— Pat Buchanan

“Until power structures change so that women are recognised and rewarded, gain full access to the means of economic independence and take a real…

— Gabrielle Palmer

I'm for economic independence.

— Charles Evers

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

— H. L. Mencken

“Crimes against women won’t stop! As women gain more independence (both in thought and in spirit), castration anxiety will act out and will always…

— Mallika Nawal

This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is…

— Jimmy Carter

“The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the people who…

— Stephen Schlesinger