Being A Woman Quotes - Page 4

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  I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

  Whitney Houston

  Inspiring, Fashion, Women

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• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Son, Men

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

  Eileen Collins

  Thinking, Prove

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Age, Grows

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.

  Diablo Cody

  Nice, Men, Safety

  "Diablo Cody Talks about the 2013 Athena Film Festival, Female Writers and Directors She Admires, Plus Updates on PARADISE and SWEET VALLEY HIGH". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2013.

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• Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

  Andrew Cohen

  Pain, Men, Self

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• There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

  Sloane Crosley

  Careers, Time Zones, World

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• I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

  Amy Schumer

  Beautiful, Strong, Fun

  Speech About Confidence at the Gloria Awards and Gala, www.vulture.com. May 2, 2014.

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• People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

  Rashida Jones

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Novelty, Conscious, Bias

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• I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

  Eva Mendes

  Believe, Celebrate, Should

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• Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Males, Credit, Actors

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• I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

  Carole King

  Thinking, Careers, Albums

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• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

  Sylvia Plath

  Regret, Past, Feminism

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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• I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Thinking, Support

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• I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being a man's world, and women's identities still being shaped by the way men look at them, and the way men can control what kinds of opportunities they can get based on how desirable the men find them, or how compliant. I don't think that's really changed a lot.

  Anna Biller

  Men, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Passion, Imagination

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.24, Verso

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• According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE

  Barbara Seaman

  Pregnancy, Men, Doctors

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• Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Husband, Thinking, Men

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.308, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Two, Knowing

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia

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• It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

  David Eddings

  Unfair, Accepting, Advantage

  David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.93, Random House

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• When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Self, Agony

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media

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