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Quotes About Self-discovery

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it
~ Victoria Principal
Women move through the world never knowing their power.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.
~ Drew Barrymore
I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
~ Gillian Flynn
I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.
~ Hazel Hawke
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
~ Deborah Norville
I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.
~ Demetria McKinney
Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!
~ Elisabeth Rohm
Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
~ George Eliot
Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
~ Gloria Steinem
I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
~ Jessica Valenti
Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
~ Kathleen Turner
I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.
~ Keith O'Brien
In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
~ Kelly Lynch
Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.
~ Kelly Reilly
I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.
~ Kristy McNichol
Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.
~ Madonna Kolbenschlag
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.
~ Maureen Murdock
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
~ Naomi Wolf
A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.
~ Natsuo Kirino
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
~ Pearl S. Buck