Quotes About Womanhood

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? How much can you stretch yourself as an artist?

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.

Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?

Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband and your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?

But she had never been a girl, she said; she had been a woman since she was eight years old. O why did Miss Pinkerton let such a dangerous bird into her cage?

Demelza con la sua femminilità appena sbocciata. Una ragazzina appassionata che si rotolava nella polvere con il suo brutto cane; una ragazza che conduceva dei buoi; una donna... il resto aveva davvero importanza?

Now, Ah Hing, I'm going to teach you how to fight like a woman. —GRANDMASTER IP MAN, Bruce Lee's teacher

El destino de una mujer es ser mujer".

For only now did she understand that a woman is born a woman from that first wail at birth. A woman's destiny is to be a woman.

O destino de uma mulher é ser mulher.

Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.

A woman can never die of grief. She is such a solid creature, so hard to kill!

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

If he were to counsel Anna, it would be to patience. The dowager Katherine won the admiration of all, when she sat smiling by the king she supposed her husband, through hours of court ceremonies, hours which stretched into years. Never was she seen with tears on her cheeks, or an angry frown. 'Yes,' Bess says, 'Katherine was a great pattern for womanhood. She died alone and friendless, did she not?

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

The time during which a woman can look for admiration is short, it will soon be past; and if my life has not been a great one, it will at least have been calm, tranquil, free from shocks. Nature has favored our sex in giving us a choice between love and motherhood. I have made mine. My children shall be my gods, and this spot of earth my Eldorado.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

In her laugh was the admission of her captivity: to Norman, to menopause, to work, to aging, to everything that could only deteriorate further.

From where I stood it was a pose that collapsed many periods in her life into one: mother and lover, big sister, best friend, superstar and diplomat, billionaire and street kid, foolish girl and woman of substance.

When I was a kid, I thought I'd rather be a brain in a jar than a "natural woman." I have turned out to be some odd combination of both, from moment to moment, and with no control over when and where or why those moments occur.