Womanhood Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out what inspires and challenges them. But for me, I'm not sure it's necessary for our bodies to define us, especially now when there are so many examples of femininity, of womanhood.

  Issa Rae

  Artist, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

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  Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

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• Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

  Taylor Swift

  Feminist, Challenges, Inspire

  "Taylor Swift Says ‘Women Who Are Killing It’ Should ‘Motivate You,’ Not Threaten You" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Want Something, Iron

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• It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

  Philip Sidney

  Wish, Delicacy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.74

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• Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Women, Dowry

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

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• All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Mother, Trying, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others.

  Janet Mock

  Powerful, Race, Expectations

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• The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood

  Gerald Massey

  Bible, People, Childhood

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• Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

  Viola Davis

  "#AskHerMore: 11 Empowering Messages From Inspiring Women On The Red Carpet At The Oscars" by Natasha Hinde, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. February 24, 2015.

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• Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rivers, Feet, Childhood

  'Michael Angelo' (1883) pt. 1, sect. 5

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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

  Bertha Knight Landes

  Sex, Feminist, Never Forget

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Women, Sadness

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Brain, Battle

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.236

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• Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned hogs and gutted deer, but in my experience on Earth I've never witnessed such a brutal event.

  Phil Robertson

  Deer, Events, Earth

  Phil Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Needs, Fame, Enough

  "The Joy of Womanhood" by Margaret D. Nadauld, www.lds.org. November 2000.

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• Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Blessing, Names

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Women, Smart

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• Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Powerful, Sleep, Oil

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• The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

  Dora Russell

  Christian, Stupid, Fighting

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• When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

  Edna Ferber

  War, Gun, Age

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• The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Women, Heart, Spheres

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

  Leigh Hunt

  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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