Womanhood Quotes - Page 5

• No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Circles, Dying

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 20, 2011

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• A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

  J.R. Miller

  Heart, Hands, Sorrow

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• I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

  Stevie Nicks

  Inspiring, Sexy, Women

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• Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.

  Betty Smith

  Hunting, Years, People

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.

  James E. Talmage

  Jesus, Champion, World

  James E. Talmage (2015). “Jesus the Christ”, p.424, Latter-day Strengths

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Revolution

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

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• People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beautiful, People, May

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

  Helen McCrory

  Looking Forward, Pinnacle, Femininity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

  Samuel Gompers

  Beautiful, Revenge, Book

  The Shoe workers' Journal, Volume 16‎ (p. 4), 1915.

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• Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Offensive, Desperate, Absurd

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• I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

  Alicia Keys

  Beautiful, Mother, Wife

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• And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Race, Black, Special

  A Voice from the South pt. 1 (1892)

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• Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Morning, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken Heart, Mother, Home

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

  Frances Harper

  Two, Perfect, Soul

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  Viola Davis

  Successful, Racism, People

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

  Herbert Croly

  Women, Motherhood, Wife

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• I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Long, Doubt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Insult, Contraceptives

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

  John Piper

  Son, Calling, Way

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• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Cooks, Ifs

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• She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wise, Men, Knowing

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.112, Open Road Media

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