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Quotes About Womanhood

The mom doesn't become sexy; the woman does. You have to retrieve the woman from the mother. And she may need to separate to do that: a bath, a walk. She must cordon off an erotic space.
~ Esther Perel
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
~ Anita Diament
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
~ Jessica Lange
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
~ Erma Bombeck
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
~ Joyce Maynard
[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.
~ Nicole Polizzi
You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
~ Charlize Theron
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
~ Pam Gems
My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.
~ Rachel Zucker
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
~ Rachel Held Evans
I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
~ Donna Karan
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
~ William Butler Yeats
What is a woman? Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter, Her husband's wife, her children's mother
~ David Elliott
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
~ Elisabeth Elliot
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
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
Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.
~ Betsy Cornwell
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.
~ Cynthia Addai-Robinson
I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
~ Summer Glau
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
~ Boris Pasternak
I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.
~ Ricki Lake
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
~ Susan B. Anthony