Self reliance Quote by Anne Brontë

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“There would be a sweet release of strength and responsibility, a sinking into another’s power, no need to feign her own. This”

— Hugh Howey

“She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and…

— Laini Taylor

“It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the…

— Nicholas Evans

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong protecting the…

— George Orwell

“The girl who has refused to prove herself to anyone except herself. The girl whose strength comes from inside.”

— Nina Lane

“The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present her choice…

— Henry James

“I know that if i could imbue her with a superpower, it would be the ability to withstand the pressures of the cultures around…

— Peggy Orenstein

“every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov