Being A Woman Quotes - Page 10

• I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Careers, People, Answers

  "74 Minutes With Sallie Krawcheck" by Helaine Olen, nymag.com. June 28, 2013.

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• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Song, Lust

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Fate, World, Timing

  FaceBook post by J. Courtney Sullivan from Mar 11, 2016

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• I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

  Sylvia Plath

  Feminism, Hot, Baths

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Feminism, Pits

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

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• You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

  Alison Goodman

  Mother, Lying, Thinking

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• We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

  Peggy Fleming

  Mean, Achievement, Wanted

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.

  Gilda Radner

  Cute, Women, Love Is

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• And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

  Ginni Rometty

  Technology, Changed, Ibm

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Fortune Most Powerful Women summit, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

  Marissa Mayer

  Self, Conscious, Ifs

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• I was always more interested in being a woman first and an advertising person second.

  Shirley Polykoff

  Firsts, Advertising, Persons

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• I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

  Norah Vincent

  Thinking, Privilege

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• Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Hate, Writing, Eye

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• Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

  Alexei Sayle

  Way, My Friends

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• What does it mean, being a woman?

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mean, Doe

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• A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Feminist, Modesty, Feminine

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• Being a woman is really crap.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Crap

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• It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

  Ruth Wilson

  Fun, Powerful, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

  Jenna Elfman

  Men, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

  Jaime Winstone

  Girl, Reflection, Years

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• I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Domain

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• Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Memories, Taken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

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• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Who I Am, Color

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