Being A Woman Quotes - Page 11

• Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Despair, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.25, Anchor

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• Being a woman is hard work.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Women, Hard Work

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Hands

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fall, People, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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• Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Gay, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Hero, Odds

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

  Charlize Theron

  Love Is, Feminine

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 12, 2012

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• There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspiring, Mother, People

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• I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

  Carly Fiorina

  Dressing Up, Shoes, Buying

  "Carly Fiorina: Fire Power". Interview with Karen Breslau, www.marieclaire.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.

  Jenna Lyons

  Inspirational, Thinking, Empowering

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• Is there no way out of the mind?

  Sylvia Plath

  Frustration, Mind, Feminism

  'Apprehensions'

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• Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Goal, Feminism

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• A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Brave, Faults

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• The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman.

  Anwar Fazal

  Real, Caring, Joy

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• I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

  Sister Souljah

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• I am too pure for you or anyone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Feminism, Classic, Purity

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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• Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Moving, Careers, Female

  Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”

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• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  Frances Perkins

  Climbing, Hiking, Tree

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• I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Soul, Feminism, Flesh

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• I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

  Shelley Long

  Mom, Mother, Love Is

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• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Way, Advantage

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com. December 2010.

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• We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

  Judith Butler

  Men, Way, Speak

  "Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fake People, Women, Independent

  "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness". Book by Edward Butscher (p. 181), 2003.

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• Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

  Sushmita Sen

  Love, God, Mother

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• Beauty is not a size. You can be a size 2 and be curvy or you can be a size 24 and be curvy Curvy is being a woman.

  Denise Bidot

  Size, Curvy

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