Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

I'm a big girl, Finn.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

I am my own woman.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.