Karen Finerman Quotes

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

Girls should empower themselves and be strong enough to protect themselves.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

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.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I know how to look after myself.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

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

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.