Super Woman Quotes

• Cause I am a Superwoman,
  Yes I am,
  Yes she is,
  Even when I'm a mess,
  I still put on a vest,
  With an S on my chest,
  Oh yes,
  I'm a Superwoman,
  ...
  And all my sisters,
  Coming together,
  Say yes I will,
  Yes I can

  Alicia Keys

  Yes I Can, Together, Causes

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• Still when I'm a mess
  I still put on a vest
  With an 'S' on my chest
  Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

  Alicia Keys

  Vests, Superwoman, Mess

  Song: Superwomen

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• My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

  Bette Midler

  Ideas, Cleaning, Superwoman

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• There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Superwoman, Ifs, Cant

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• I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Thinking, Sometimes, Superwoman

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• When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Inspiring, Tired, Today

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• Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Movement, Superwoman, Adversaries

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• I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

  Uma Thurman

  Mom, I've Learned, Superwoman

  "Uma Thurman Refuses to Dish Dirt on Ex-Hubby Ethan Hawke". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2006.

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• Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Superhero, Capes, Superwoman

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2011

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• Siddharth accepts me in the way I am. In the first few months of marriage I got bogged down by the
  notion that I had to juggle between handling home duties and starting work on a new film. He explained
  I needn't be a superwoman. He understands that if he could go out to work and end up neglecting things
  at home, so could I.

  Vidya Balan

  Home, Firsts, Way

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• I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

  Sandra Bullock

  Should Have, Worry, Trying

  "Sandra Bullock: My mother raised me not to depend on a man for anything". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.express.co.uk. October 12, 2013.

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• I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  "How hot does Brooklyn Decker look in a bikini? Very hot." by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.

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• My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.

  Halle Berry

  Mom, Pregnancy, Wish

  "Hallelujah". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 8, 2009.

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• Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman.

  Sarah Wylie

  Strong, Wall, Fall

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• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Strong, Talking

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Two

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• women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.

  Ellen Goodman

  Worry, Becoming, Superwoman

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

  Storm Jameson

  Jobs, Motherhood, Careers

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• I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.

  Geoffrey Blainey

  Reality, Air, Balls

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• I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

  Cindy McCain

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.

  Cindy McCain

  Feet, Trying, Way

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

  Michael Chabon

  Years, Together, Males

  "A Woman of Valor". Alure, May 2004.

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• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

  Warren Farrell

  Baby, Home, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Night, Careers

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• There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

  Helen Fielding

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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