Womanhood Quotes - Page 6

• My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Husband, Home

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (p. 113), 1996.

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• Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

  Viola Davis

  Ideas

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• Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Exposed, Facets, My Friends

  Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship”, p.96, Penguin

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Facts, Relation

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

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• I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Cycling, Riding A Bicycle, Wheels

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• Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Responsibility, Finals, Analysis

  John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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• Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Way, Praying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.349

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• If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Panic Attacks, Comedy

  "Bridget Jones and women in the 90s". www.cnn.com. August 6, 1999.

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• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Boys, Quality

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• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

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• Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Grace, Neatness

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• Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

  Lucy Stone

  Women, Independent, Clothes

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony". Book by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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• We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

  Susie Orbach

  Food, Want, Thinness

  Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

  Andy Warhol

  Queens, Women, People

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Feminist

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

  Walter Scott

  Mystery, Charm

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• But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Eye, Winning

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• I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Writing, Sacrifice

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• The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Perfect, Special, Calling

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

  Tilda Swinton

  Inspiring, Women, Feminist

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• It's been interesting to look back on those works [I've done previously] and see all the things that Beyoncé has done and become for us in the meantime, because back then, folks were like, "Why Beyoncé? I don't get why she is kind of the symbol for black womanhood."

  Morgan Parker

  Interesting, Black, Looks

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• My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud of womanhood, and I feel attached to it, and at the same time I'm someone who doesn't believe in having a gender binary, and so often times I separate those two concepts in my mind - the concept of being a woman and the concept of being a girl or being female, being kind of attached to a certain gender identity.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Girl, Believe, Past

  Source: www.glamour.com

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