self-made woman

I have always thought of Helen Gurley Brown as the female version of a Horatio Alger hero—the American dream of a self-made woman.

Unlike the other two— Jayalalitha and Mayawati, who use only one name—Banerjee is a self-made woman.

I was to Sylvia a new and miraculous thing, a self-made woman.

He knew the story of her "career" now, and of her desire to be a self-made woman.