Being A Woman Quotes - Page 4

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  I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

  Whitney Houston

  Inspiring, Fashion, Women

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• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Son, Men

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

  Eileen Collins

  Thinking, Prove

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Age, Grows

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Feminism, Half

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• I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

  Sylvia Plath

  Regret, Past, Feminism

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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• I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

  Lyn St. James

  Winning, Race, Car

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• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Mother, Responsibility

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

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• Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person.

  Mildred H. McAfee

  Interesting, Persons

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• According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE

  Barbara Seaman

  Pregnancy, Men, Doctors

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• Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Men, Space, Self

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• Being a woman in the pop world, sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What's the line? I don't have a line. I am the most sexually free woman on the planet, and I genuinely am empowered from a very honest place by my sexuality. What's more primal than sex? I mean, it's so honest. If I didn't think I had the talent to back that up, I wouldn't have done it.

  Lady Gaga

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

  Edward Gorey

  Men, Heterosexuality Is, Serious

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Feminism, Nihilism, Causes

  Harvey Claflin Mansfield (2007). “Manliness”, p.147, Yale University Press

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• A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Inspirational, Strength, Romantic

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• In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

  Geri Jewell

  Funny, Eyebrows, Ears

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• Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  Ntozake Shange

  Women, Feminist, African American

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• And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Thinking, Issues, Giving

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• You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Being Yourself, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Anxiety, Body, Feminine

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Rocks, Degrees

  "Breaking all the rules" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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