Neko Case Quotes

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

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

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

I think more guys should wake up and realize we're equal. You don't have to take care of me.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

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.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.

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.

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

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

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

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

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

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

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I am my own woman.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

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.