Anna Quindlen Quotes

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self... Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.

I think certainly that looking for love is a big part of the show, but I think that if - there's one thing that is different about 'Sex and the City' and the message that I think has resonated with viewers, especially women. It's that you don't need to get married. You don't really need that love to be fulfilled.

Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

I'm a very strong woman.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

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

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

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

All I've ever needed is myself.

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.