Womanhood Quotes - Page 3

• It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Lying, Power, Men

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Independence, Feminism

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• The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

  Katherine Center

  Eye, Hands, Rolling

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• Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong Women, Real, Empowering

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• Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don't go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong, you, it will haunt you.

  Ice Cube

  Feelings, Proud, Situation

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you'll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that's really damaging, not just because it's a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.

  Jessica Valenti

  Conceited, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Perfect, Independence

  Swami Vivekananda (1986). “Awakened India”

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• Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.

  Claudia Black

  Love You, People, Needs

  "Claudia Black: Actor, Containment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

  Ann Voskamp

  Mother, Father, Real

  Twitter post from May 10, 2013

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• I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Running, Growing Up, Pants

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Occupation, May

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

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• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  Eva Figes

  Fashion, Strong, Queens

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• Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

  John Vianney

  Christian, Mother, Blessed

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• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Dwarves, Together

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• The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Work, Years

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• Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Mother, Wife, Special

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• To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

  J. G. Holland

  Struggle, Track, Perfection

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.112

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• The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Mean, Liberty

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “A Woman at Thirty”, p.121, The Floating Press

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• Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Exaltation, Priesthood

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• We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, Growing

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

  Elmina Shepard Taylor

  Girl, Grace, Pace

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• No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Real, Pride, Men

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• The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.

  Emily Carr

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

  Susan B. Anthony

  Baby, Honor, Talent

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• In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Zambia, Childhood

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