Quotes About Identity

Every man and woman is a star.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Give us that grand word woman once again, And let's have done with lady; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has nothing else to turn to but the owning of material things.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

I am my own woman.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.