It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.
Coco ChanelTag: individuality strength love empowerment men women freedom marriage self-determination independence autonomy bachelorhood self-sufficiency singles matrimony
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia WoolfTag: intelligence empowerment gender men women thought feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés dignity social-norms
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John LennonTag: inspirational be-yourself self-determination self-awareness
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
Adrienne RichTag: empowerment women feminism self-respect self-determination responsibility independent-thought critical-thinking
I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.
Christopher PaoliniTag: self-determination eragon
I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment equality gender opportunities poetry women dreams fiction feminism self-determination aspirations dignity social-norms women-writers
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham LincolnTag: life advice future self-determination
I'd rather die my way than live yours.
Lauren OliverTag: self-determination self-reliance independence lena-holoway
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: empowerment gender girls freedom self-determination stereotypes clichés dignity
In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: individuality empowerment gender women feminism self-determination misogyny stereotypes discrimination double-standards clichés dignity social-norms classification
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