Dad died Quote by Halimah Yacob

“In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.”

— Alice Steinbach

“No one had ever advocated her independence before. The entire success of her marriage, her whole career as a woman, depended largely upon her…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though,…

— Alice Steinbach

“As I’d worked at my job and traveled and read and lived my life, I’d also decided that a woman is meant to be…

— Anu Partanen

“And many women, whether or not they are politically active, ideologically committed feminists, or whether they have simply considered the lives of their mothers…

— Rebecca Traister

“what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself it's the world…

— Rupi Kaur

“Once a woman is comfortable in her own skin, living her own life and building a foundation by herself; it takes one heck of…

— Nikki Rowe

“Do you realize how important it is to be independent? To be able to take care of yourself? To not rely on someone else…

— Alyson Noel

“A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.”

— Robyn Carr

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

— Rebecca Traister

“Of course, women have always worked, that is to say, raised children, tended to the home, grown crops, etc., and how different the history…

— Nina Power

“When it comes to women, how far do patriarchal and exploitative capitalist values rely on women providing unwaged care, on which our society can…

— Trista Hendren