Independent Women Quotes

Sisters and Rebels

Winner of the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the 2020 Summersell Prize, a 2020 PROSE Award, and a Plutarch Award finalist “The word befitting this work is ‘masterpiece.’ ” —Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters sought their fortunes in the North, reinventing themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor. National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past. Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood. Grounded in decades of research, the family’s private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives of three Southern women.

Independent Woman

It's a Girl

Alpha women are not born; they are made! For them, age is just a number. The society, their personal experiences and the will to never die, makes them alpha women. They are confident, majestic leaders and believe in no game playing. They believe in an equal or superior position to men. They tap their weaknesses to convert it to their strengths. She makes a posthumous mark on society and the world. In other words, alpha women make an imprint on life. It’s not a difficult task to be one of them. One just has to make up their minds, and the journey starts! BE the prototype for the woman in the future. Be an alpha woman!