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Quotes About Identity

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.
~ Barbara Gordon
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
~ Betty Friedan
Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.
~ Robin Williams
I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
~ Goldie Hawn
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
~ Washington Irving
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.
~ Lord Byron
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
~ Coco Chanel
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
~ John Lennon
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
~ Yousuf Karsh
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.
~ Unknown
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
~ Margaret Atwood
All married women are not wives.
~ Japanese Proverb
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
~ Pablo Picasso
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
~ Eva Burrows
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress.
~ Unknown
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
~ Anita Brookner
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
~ Martin Luther
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
~ Heinrich Heine
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
~ Martina Navratilova
Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
~ Roseanne Barr
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.
~ Drew Barrymore
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
~ Rita Mae Brown