Quotes About Womanhood

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.

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.

It's not about women acting like man, it's about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.

She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.

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.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

A woman can't teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

Trenutak samoubojstva za žene je trenutak kad su najusamljenije, i kad najbolje shva?aju što zna?i biti žena.

On the other hand, in ancient, and modern, tribal cultures, everything given is already known by everyone you know. Manhood, womanhood, your first trinket, your last rite. Back then, and over there, they expected happiness and therefore achieved that state.

I don't say it often, but I'm proud of the woman that I turned out to be