Superwoman Quotes - Page 2

• 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?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Violence, Males

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

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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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• 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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• I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Able, Pressure, Impossible

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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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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• 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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• The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Men, Different

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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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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• Michelle Obama is Superwoman. What can't she do? That's why people love her. She can be on the Supreme Court and anywhere else she wants. She can be the president. She's history and she'll stay history because she is so amazingly smart and together.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Smart, People, President

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• The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Clay, Doe, Needs

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• I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!

  Sophia Loren

  Exercise, Oil, Light

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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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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• I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hands, Years, Forgive Me

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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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• 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, Wanted

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

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