Quotes About Womanhood

I pride myself on being an athlete and I have muscles, but at the same time I am a woman and my muscles make me empowered as a woman.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.

the circle of women coming together to celebrate being alive—and being a woman, which is a magic all its own.

Fertility, sexuality, strength, and the ability to create and nurture life: These were the powers of women ... It was a ripening, yes, but not just for the purpose of bearing children, or being a wife. It represented a claiming of one's self...

the basic theme is the dichotomy of womanhood. the woman cut in two. every society creates laws to exercise power over women and exclude certain parts of the woman

But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

I grew up accepting the inevitability that once you became a woman, you were always on a diet. Being a woman equaled loss.

My mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother all told me it was right, that without it a woman wouldn't be able to control herself, that she would end up a prostitute," said Aset, a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old whose own genitals had been mutilated when she was about seven years old.

Female is real, and it's sex, and femininity is unreal, and it's gender.

Gioconda aborda temas femeninos como la menarquía, menstruación y menopausia. Hace alusión al desorden hormonal en una prosa poética. Aborda además, el cansancio de un matrimonio de 26 años, un esposo exitoso y una mujer que busca su propia identidad. Ambos cometen infidelidad.

Ya no mujer joven sino mujer rotunda. Mis deseos ya no intuiciones sino certezas.

Woman is God's supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on the earth, was woman created; and only then was the work pronounced complete and good.

Bill—that was it; Bill, the Chauffeur. That was his name. He was a wretched, primitive man, wholly devoid of the finer instincts and chivalrous promptings of a cultured soul. No, there is no absolute justice, for to him fell that wonder of womanhood, Vesta Van Warden. The grievous-ness of this you will never understand, my grandsons; for you are yourselves primitive little savages, unaware of aught else but savagery. Why

There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.