Grown Women Quotes

• So few grown women like their lives.

  Katharine Graham

  Gender

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• I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

  Tori Amos

  Scar

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• I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

  Sharon Stone

  Girl, Trying, Looks

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• We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

  Natasha Hamilton

  Ifs

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  I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Order, Land

  "The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause". Book by Germaine Greer, 1991.

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• I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Growing Up, Eye, Years

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• I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

  Annie Barrows

  Champagne, I Can

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.52, A&C Black

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• Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Dream, Children

  Lewis Carroll (2000). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, p.118, Penguin

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• I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

  Terry McMillan

  Mirrors, Long, Age

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.15, Penguin

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• ‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Heart, Broken

  Phebe A. Curtiss, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hans Christian Andersen (2017). “Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…”, p.350, e-artnow

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• There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown women. It was a professional race, but I ended up winning. That was kind of a turning point for me where I felt like, "Okay, I'm pretty good at this and there's a possibility for this to be a career for me." That was a defining moment for me.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Athlete, School

  "Exclusive: Allyson Felix, The Best to Ever Do It". Interview with Sylvia Snowden, www.ebony.com. September 13, 2016.

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• I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.

  Mara Wilson

  Oreos, Looks, Crafts

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• When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

  Loleatta Holloway

  Children, Years, Voice

  "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.

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• I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Littles, Felt

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• Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Children, Dirty

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• I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

  Curtis Jackson

  Children, Hip Hop, R Kelly

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• A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Pieces, Steam

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.116, Penguin

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• I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

  Leighton Meester

  Littles, Might, Sometimes

  "Leighton Meester Opens Up About Fat Days" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free.

  Maureen Howard

  Children, Father, Hysteria

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