Womanhood Quotes - Page 6

• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Facts, Relation

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Cycling, Riding A Bicycle, Wheels

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• Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Responsibility, Finals, Analysis

  John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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• Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Way, Praying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.349

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• If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Panic Attacks, Comedy

  "Bridget Jones and women in the 90s". www.cnn.com. August 6, 1999.

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• Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

  Andy Warhol

  Queens, Women, People

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

  Susie Orbach

  Food, Want, Thinness

  Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

  Lucy Stone

  Women, Independent, Clothes

  "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony". Book by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Cooks, Ifs

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• Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Grace, Neatness

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• The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

  Frances Harper

  Two, Perfect, Soul

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Insult, Contraceptives

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  Viola Davis

  Successful, Racism, People

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.

  John Piper

  Son, Calling, Way

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• I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Long, Doubt

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

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• At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

  Herbert Croly

  Women, Motherhood, Wife

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• But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Eye, Winning

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• I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Writing, Sacrifice

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• The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Perfect, Special, Calling

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

  Tilda Swinton

  Inspiring, Women, Feminist

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• I believe great people do things before they are ready.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, People, Feminist

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

  Walter Scott

  Mystery, Charm

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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• I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find The Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Sex, Believe

  "Aniston was no 'Sex and the City' fan". Vogue Interview, www.today.com. November 13, 2008.

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• We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Feminist, Teach

  "Beyonce: Gender equality is a myth" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

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