Being A Woman Quotes - Page 12

• I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.

  Jenna Lyons

  Inspirational, Thinking, Empowering

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• A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Brave, Faults

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• My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

  Emma Thompson

  Years, Appearance, Changed

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• [Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mother, Teacher, Book

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Levels, Good Things

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.142, Penguin

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• When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Lost Youth, Enjoy

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

  John Hurt

  Crazy, Boys, Peculiar

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• Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Intelligent, Love Is

  "Mrs Carter Uncut". Interview with Jo Ellison, www.vogue.co.uk. April 4, 2013.

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• I enjoy being a woman. It's what I learned from years of experience in modeling. You learn how to seduce; how to be sensual, how to play. It's very important for a woman, I think. But it's not by beauty that you seduce. It's a meeting - it depends on the image the other reflects back to you, how they see you and make you feel.

  Laetitia Casta

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.

  Bipasha Basu

  Sexy, Fun, Men

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

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• Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.

  Eve Arnold

  Fun, Men, Plus

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• I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

  Nina Bawden

  Differences, Interesting, Feelings

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Women who understand how powerful they are do not give into envy over meaningless things, instead they fight to maintain the beautiful bond of the sisterhood. These are the real women who know that we need each other's love & support to survive in this world. Love is the essence of being a woman. We must be that light of love that seals the bond & unique beauty of our sisterhood.

  Bindu

  Beautiful, Powerful, Real

  "Time to Put the ‘Sister’ Back in ‘Sisterhood’" by Sophia A. Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2013.

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• When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Favors, Fortune, Young

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

  Maria Callas

  Men, Hands, Pals

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• Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

  Erin Andrews

  Thinking, People, Males

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• It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Facts, Vote

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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• Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Strong Women, Disappointment, Struggle

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Mother, Writing

  Tess Gallagher (1992). “Moon crossing bridge: poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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• Being a woman anywhere is dangerous.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Dangerous

  Mona Eltahawy (2015). “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution”, p.108, Macmillan

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• On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.

  Zoe Saldana

  Girlfriend, Playing Someone, Earth

  "‘Guardians’ Interview: Zoe Saldana on Going Green and the Importance of Teenage Boys". www.slashfilm.com. July 10, 2014.

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• You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

  Charlize Theron

  Mom, Kind, Good Mom

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Silence, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sad, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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