Ken Follett Quotes

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

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

I am a different type of female. I am not your typical wife of a successful man.

I try to write from a place of writing what I know, and what I know is interesting and appropriate women with edgy senses of humor. They're not soft people, so why are all the movies about women soft? My friends are all blazing their own paths. Some are married with kids, but a lot of them aren't. Some of them don't want that life.

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home... The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.

I want to play a strong, kickass girl in heels. I'm better in heels. I can run faster in them than in flats.

Women are natural anarchists...

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?" they generally answer "No, thank you." This leads to falling birthrates everywhere women are not kept enslaved and ignorant of the alternatives.

Alright, macho babe boy, I'm not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don't try your he-man tactics with me. I'll have you know, in my office, I'm known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda)

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.