Eddi Reader Quotes

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

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.

I do not have to depend on a man to give me bread.

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

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

Money equals freedom.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

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

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

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.

I'm for economic independence.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

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've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.