#dependence

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

#creativity #empowerment #independence #inspirational-stories #self-confidence

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#freedom

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#women #women

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #fame #independent-thought #judgment #opinions

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ↗

— Will Durant

#declaration #independence #make #nature #never

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#always #american #be different #declaration #different

I'm for economic independence. ↗

— Charles Evers

#economic independence #i #independence