Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

The power of earning is essential to the dignity of a woman

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

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

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough in our own pockets; and maybe you will ask us for money.

My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

My own foundation concentrates on women's economic empowerment on the basis that if women have their own money and are able to support themselves, they can make choices about what happens to them in their lives, about whether they have education, whether they get married, and what happens to their children.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, ... home economics than financial economics.

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

Today's women are not dependent, and I think it's the biggest sense of freedom.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.