Louisa May Alcott Quotes

It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves.

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

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

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

Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

I want to go out on my terms.

I don't need a man in my life.

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

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

Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.