Modern Woman Quotes

• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

  Heidi Klum

  Life Changing, Thinking, Trying

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• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Grandmother

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• I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

  Heidi Klum

  White, Perfect, Fence

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• What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, World, Comical

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Twice Tempted by a Rogue”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

  Katy Perry

  Two, Important, Half

  "'I need to let my heart heal': Katy Perry's planning to take a break after her split" by Nicola Methven, www.mirror.co.uk. June 25, 2012.

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• The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Thinking, Feminism, Scene

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• Boo-hoo. Help me, I'm a girl. What kind of modern woman are you? A smart one.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Smart, Helping

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Fashion, Husband

  "The Women", Aphorism 79,

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• I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

  Eva Mendes

  School, Independent, Mind

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• The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Bachelors, Uselessness

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.189

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• Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

  Clare Wright

  Women, Thinking, Ideas

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• Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Empowering, Live In The Moment, Sensual

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

  Charles Bukowski

  Women, Pockets, Forget

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• As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Thinking, Way, Granted

  "Lorraine Toussaint Talks SELMA, Spending Time with the Woman She Plays, Bringing Her Daughter to Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style.

  Demi Moore

  Style, World, Want

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• I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his eyes and laughed. “And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women’s Liberation Movement’s list of things not to say to a modern woman

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Eye, People

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.39, Penguin

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• My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

  Lionel Blue

  Inspirational, Dance, Mother

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• Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Understanding, Looks

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• A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff...
  ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

  Prabal Gurung

  Stuff, Modern, Expensive

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• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Depressing, People, Work Out

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• I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

  Sasha Alexander

  Jobs, Uber, Feminine

  Source: collider.com

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• One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Women, Writing

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• Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Women, Sea

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Running, Class

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