Being A Woman Quotes - Page 8

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  Maggie Q

  Journey, Thinking, Just Being

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• What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Fun, Mean, Today

  "Comedy Showrunners Week: New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether laughs at her characters' pain". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. September 25, 2012.

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• It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Danger, Matrimony, Marrying

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• Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

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• South Pacific - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during South Pacific, I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  Laura Osnes

  Girl, Swear, South

  "BWW Interviews: Two-Time Tony Nominee Laura Osnes Talks Masterclasses in Texas". Interview with Katricia Lang, www.broadwayworld.com. August 27, 2014.

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• To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Men, Different

  "Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 06, 2011.

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• Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

  Martha Wainwright

  Kids, Neglect, Bits

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Thinking, Way, Hard

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

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• In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

  Carole King

  Careers, Obstacles, Advantage

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• I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.

  Summer Glau

  Personality, Feel Good, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

  Nicole Beharie

  People, Black, Minorities

  "Exclusive! Nicole Beharie Talks Career Choices, Burden Of Representation, Being An “It” Girl & More". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

  Cathy Freeman

  Role Models, Be Who You Are, Roles

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

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• Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

  Cecile Richards

  President, Thanks, Conditions

  "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Eye, Garden, Eden

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• I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Men, Wife

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Ifs

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• I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

  Jenna Lyons

  Women, Thinking, Credit

  "Glamour Women Of The Year Awards Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lena Dunham, Zaha Hadid And Others" by Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.

  Zoe Saldana

  Men, Overcoming, World

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I just want to say this. I love being a woman. I love playing a woman. I love being a whole and full woman. I am more than my parts, and we all are. And we all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing. We are full and beautiful women, and let us live in that.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Beautiful, Love Is, Needs

  "Selma, Black-ish, Taraji P. Henson Honored at 2015 NAACP Image Awards—Plus, the Winners List!" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 6, 2015.

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• The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

  Margaret Way

  Men, Full Potential, Realising

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• I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

  Halle Berry

  Color, Way, Path

  "Female Bonding - Hot on the Heels of Her Academy-award Winning Turn in 'Monster's Ball,' Halle Berry Shares the Screen With 007". Chicago Sun-Times, November 17, 2002.

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• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  Barbra Streisand

  Men, World, Fine

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• Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Quality, Together

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Cities, Progress

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Nice, Wonderful Friends

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