Frank Abagnale Quotes

A girl, whether in the industry or out of it, has to protect herself.

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

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

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

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

In school and college, there have been instances where I wish I knew how to defend myself.

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

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

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

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.

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.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

I should not rely on the goodness of heart of anybody.

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 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 can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

It's really important to take your own personal safety into your own hands.

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.